Latest Bruges Group facts on EU's bankrupting of Britain

THE FLOOD OF EU LAWS

From 1st May 2008 to 15th July the EU has passed 282 laws which will impact on the UK. That is TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO!

Since May 2007 the total is 1,798. Examples of the laws recently introduced are below:

• Nest feathering - better pay, pensions and expenses for Brussels bureaucrats Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 420/2008 adjusting with effect from 1 July 2007 the remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants of the European Communities
• Control over credit Directive 2008/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit agreements for consumers and repealing Council Directive 87/102/EEC
• Involvement in civil law mediation Directive 2008/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters
• More funding for tobacco farmers Council Regulation (EC) No 470/2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 as regards the transfer of tobacco aid to the Community Tobacco Fund for the years 2008 and 2009 and Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 with regard to financing of the Community Tobacco Fund
• Control over the marketing of apples Commission Regulation (EC) No 460/2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 85/2004 laying down the marketing standard for apples
• More control over Customs Regulation (EC) No 450/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the Community Customs Code (Modernised Customs Code)
• Control over telecommunications equipment Commission Directive 2008/63/EC on competition in the markets in telecommunications terminal equipment (Codified version)
• Control over the marketing of eggs Commission Regulation (EC) No 598/2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards the marketing standards of eggs
• Restrictions on the UK's fishing industry Commission Regulation (EC) No 614/2008 2008 establishing a prohibition of fishing for tusk in Norwegian waters of IV by vessels flying the flag of the United Kingdom
• Control over driving licences - relating to licences for driving clutch pedal vehicles Commission Directive 2008/65/EC amending Directive 91/439/EEC on driving licences
• Movement of social security schemes Regulation (EC) No 592/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community
• Control over firearms Directive 2008/51/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 91/477/EEC on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons
• Price of eggs Commission Regulation (EC) No 448/2008 fixing representative prices in the poultrymeat and egg sectors and for egg albumin, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1484/95
• Petfood Commission Regulation (EC) No 399/2008 amending Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards requirements for certain processed petfood
• Price of fruit and vegetables Commission Regulation (EC) No 389/2008 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

Each time the anti-democratic EU legislative process passes a law, a new cost is added onto British businesses. As members of the European Union there is nothing that our own democratic process can do to overturn those decisions.