Review calls for 'goldplating' evidence

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Businesses and industry bodies are being urged to present examples to a new government review of instances where "goldplating" may be creating excessive red tape in the UK.

Neil Davidson QC, the former solicitor general for Scotland, has set up a review to look at how the UK puts EU legislation into practice and is calling for evidence of over-implementation and goldplating, where unnecessary burdens are added as EU measures enter UK law. The review, supported by the Cabinet Office, aims to identify and to consider ways to simplify any unnecessary burdens created by over-implementation and will report with recommendations to the government by the end of 2006. It is looking at the whole process by which EU legislation is given effect in the UK, from trans...

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