15 EU Laws and Regulations We Will Miss in Post-Brexit - Andy McSmith From The Independent (June 2016) PDF

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15 EU laws and regulations we will miss in

post-Brexit Britain
There is no doubt that the volume of EU directives and rules is vast - and
they all havelegal force in the UKuntil the Brexit negotiations are
complete. After the UK is out, it will be for Parliament to decide whether
to keep them or scrap them
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Scottish trawlermen haul in their catch of Haddock, some 70 miles in the Atlantic off the north coast of
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The EU has too many rules and regulations, according to those

who campaigned for a Brexit vote. Outside the EU we wouldnt
have all the EU regulations which cost our economy
600 million a week, Michael Gove claimed during the
campaign.
Whether EU regulations are really that expensive is disputed, but
there is no doubt that the volume of EU directives and rules is
vast - and they all have legal force in the UK until the Brexit
negotiations are complete. After the UK is out, it will be for
Parliament to decide whether to keep them or scrap them.
Here 15 examples of EU laws or rules that govern our lives
some that a post-Brexit government may choose to abolish, and
others that will probably remain.
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Free movement of labour News
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Immigration may have been the biggest single reason that the
country voted Brexit. EU membership denies the Government
any control over the number or type of EU migrants who come
to the UK seeking work. Leaders of the Brexit campaign have
said they will introduce an Australian-style points system under
which all migrants would be subject to the same rules, and could
be selectively refused entry.
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But free movement of labour is a cherished EU rule, which

applies even to Switzerland and Norway, which are not EU
members but have free trade agreements with the EU. This issue
could set Brexit supporters ghting among themselves, with
Nigel Farage, who pushed immigration to the centre of the
campaign on one side, and the Tory MEP Daniel Hannan, a
libertarian Tory and supporter of free trade on the other. Hannan
told the BBC: Do not imagine that if we leave the EU that will
mean zero immigration.
The right to be forgotten

In 2010, a Spanish citizen whose home had once been
repossessed complained that it was a breach of his privacy that
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went to the EU court, who found in his favour and ruled that
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individuals have the right to demand that search links remove
links with personal information about them, if that information is
inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive. When Britain is
out the EU, Google can, if they want to, apply to a British court
for a ruling that in the UK there is no right to be forgotten.
Child benet for migrant workers

EU citizens working in the UK can claim child benet even if
their children are not living in this country. That right is likely to
be an early casualty of Brexit.
Working time directive

Under EU law, it is illegal to make an employee work for an
average of more than 48 hours a week. John Major secured an
opt-out for the UK from this directive in 1992, but six years later
the Labour Government opted in. Working class voters who
backed Brexit are unlikely to want to see this protection
disappear, despite the cost to employers, which is said to be
above 4 bn a year. However, Andrea Leadsom, a prominent
Brexit campaigner, said during the campaign: In the area of
employment I wouldnt expect to see deregulation.
Temporary Agency Workers Directive
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This aims to guarantee that those hired through employment

agencies get the same pay and conditions as employees in the
same business doing the same work. The overall cost to
employers is only half that of the working time directive, and
though free marketeers in the Brexit camp might think this is an
unnecessary interference in the labour market, the comment
from Ms Leadsom implies that the post-Brexit Government may
not want to take the political risk of abolishing it.
Fishing
The Common Fisheries Policy gives European shing eets
equal access to the waters of all EU state within 12 nautical miles
of the coast, and imposes quotas to preserve sh stocks. Boris
Johnson has described the quotas as crazy. Brexit may turn out
to be good news for the British shing eets, but at others
expence.
VAT on energy bills
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The removal of VAT from gas and electricity bills would be socially
progressive(Rex Features)
EU law lays down that the standard rate of VAT must be at least
15 per cent, and the reduced rate, which can only apply to certain
specied goods and services, must be at least 5 per cent. It does
not allow governments the freedom to decide that there should
be no VAT on chosen items - hence that long argument over VAT
on sanitary goods, dubbed the tampon tax, which was eventually
scrapped. Outside the EU, the Government could remove VAT
from gas and electricity bills, which would be socially
progressive, because the people most aected would be those on
the lowest incomes, but green activists may object that it is not
green because it might encourage people to use more
electricity.
Renewables directive
Technically known as Directive 2009/28/EC, this is reckoned by
the Open Europe think-tank to be the single most expensive
piece of Brussels-imposed legislation. Steered through the
Commons by Ed Miliband, when he was Energy Secretary, it sets
targets for combatting climate change, such as achieving a 20 per
cent share of energy from renewable sources by 2020, at a
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reputed cost of 4.7bn a year. Brexit campaigners tend to be

sceptical about climate change, so a government dominated by
Brexiteers may well see this as a useful way to save money. Green
activists will disagree.
EU Climate and Energy Package

This is a set of rules that compel EU states to meet key targets
including a 20 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions and a 20
per cent improvement in energy eciency. Like the renewables
directive, it is expensive.
Banking regulations
There is some doubt as to whether even a post-Brexit British Government would

dare lift bank regulations after the experience of 2008 (Getty)
When EU states argued over how tightly to regulate the banks,

the UK was usually on the side of light regulations with the
Germans leading the other side. The Capital Requirements
Directive IV is a compromise, but an expensive one for the UK
economy. But there must be some doubt as to whether even a
post-Brexit British Government would dare lift bank regulations
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When David Cameron addressed the 2011 Conservative

conference, he ridiculed the EU for involving itself in the
question of whether people suering from diabetes mellitus
should be issued with driving licences. There is no blanket ban,
but the updated directive 2006/126/EC says that diabetics who
need regular insulin treatment should be issued with driving
licences only in very exceptional circumstances. After Brexit,
road safety will be Parliaments responsibility.
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Clean water
The EU has strict rules about the cleanliness of drinking water,
and of the water in which we bathe. In other words, for as long as
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swim in sewage-polluted sea. Even Nigel Farage might agree

that this is a right not worth reclaiming.
Bananas
Even outside the EU, British shoppers may resist having to pay the full price for
bananas whose shape is not aesthetically pleasing
It is absurd that we are told you cannot sell bananas in bunches

of more than two or three bananas. You cannot sell bananas with
abnormal curvature of the ngers, Boris Johnson declared
during the campaign. He was plain wrong about bunches of
bananas, but in 1993, the Commission did genuinely draw up
Regulation 404/93 setting out a new EC-wide banana import
regime which set out what, under EU rules, constituted a
standard quality banana. It did not ban misshapen bananas, but it
did categorise them as sub-standard. There is a 56 page EU
document explaining the regulation, and setting the history of its
introduction. This is a trie absurd, but even outside the EU,
British shoppers may resist having to pay the full price for
bananas whose shape is not aesthetically pleasing.
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Vacuum Cleaners
In July 2013, the European Commission imposed a regulation
setting new standards for ecient electricity use for vacuum
cleaners. Leaving the EU means that Parliament can decide
whether the British should have the right restored to buy
inecient vacuum cleaners that use lots of electricity.
Hair dryers, kettles, toasters

The EU is threatening to impose regulations on other household
items on the same lines of those that apply to vacuum cleaners.
Thursdays vote may have saved the British energy guzzling
kettle.
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Angkor
22 days ago
Does the author of this article not think it within the capability
of British people to work out how to provide themselves with
clean water without having a EU directive telling them how to
do so? Things would be in an irredeemably dire state if that
were the case.
Is there a European Directive on how to wipe your bottom that
we should be made aware of?
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Really?
19 days ago
But that's not the point. The UK might not need these
laws, but other EU countries really need to improve on
their health and safety standards and that's where many
EU laws are GLOBALLY helpful. The EU is not just
about Brussels vs. Britain. Many people seem to forget
this.
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JohnnyDuke
101 days ago
There was me thinking 'Project Fear' was over now the

democratic vote has been taken and the main protagonist had
resigned ...
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Arte8800
107 days ago
Kick all the illegal immigrant out from UK. Our own people
can't nd work, and here are these immigrants taking our jobs.
Kick them out.
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St. John
107 days ago
If you don't feel like free movement of labour, then don't take
it.
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RichieB
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108 days ago
Just to cheer you up lads, my apologies to the ladies, Daenerys

Targaryon. I know GOT is only ction but a lot of the bulls**t
spoken on this blog also is !!
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Of course, one of the scariest things about Brexit is that the

government will have the power to re write laws without any
recourse to Parliament.
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grammargrub
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108 days ago
The right to forgotten - like Tony B. Liar for instance?

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Olde Janner
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108 days ago
What a crock of sh#te!

Just like the rest of the EU, you so eloquently make the case to
Leave, well done!
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SteveGJ
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108 days ago
What sort of nonsense is "the British energy guzzling kettle"

statement. Learn some damned physics. The energy required
to bring a given quantity of water to the boil is dened by the
mass of the water how many degrees centigrade that it has to
be raised. Any heat loss in the time taken to boil the kettle is so
small as to be irrelevant and could be reduced further with
insulation (which would make more sense as it would reduce
the energy required should you need to bring a kettle back to
the boil). A kettle which takes longer to boil will, all other
things being equal, waster a larger amount of energy
neglecting the issue of resistive losses in the wiring.
So apart from making people stand around longer waiting for
the kettle to boil, what this would achieve is dicult to identify
beyond using it as a sledgehammer technique to make people
more careful over the amount of water.
As for vacuum cleaners, has anybody actually measured how
much electricity is saved given some anecdotes are that it just
takes longer and is less eective.
In any event, these are decisions which can be made perfectly
well to suit local conditions.
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The vacuum cleaners change was for take up of

eciency technology (Dyson-esque). UK manufacturers
have already adopted and did so prior to the change and
they also had plenty of time and information (Hoover
had a warehouse full of the ones they had already
stopped making and the Daily Mail ogged them for
them through lies). Do try to keep up.
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Heisenberg97
108 days ago
Great! Journalist obviously failed physics and chemistry

and had to get a job writing tripe.
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Herg
108 days ago
What is the conversion factor from centigrade to

Celsius?
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Mike Hambuchen
108 days ago
"the updated directive 2006/126/EC says that diabetics who

need regular insulin treatment should be issued with driving
licences only in very exceptional circumstances.
WOW! As 10% of all Americans are diabetic (not all insulin
dependent) that signicant number of voters could almost have
their own political party. The ones in the UK must have
certainly been a signicant inuence on the result of the vote.
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