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UK awash in EU legislation

Wednesday, 16th June 2010

The European Union has introduced 2756 pieces of legislation in the 12 months since the last European Elections, said UKIP's Nigel Farage.

Returning to Brussels after a short break to recover from a plane crash, the Party's chief spokesman revealed that between last June and the end of May this year, EU officials had pushed through 1355 regulations, 167 directives, and 1234 other pieces of legislation and legislative instruments, almost none of which passed through the European Parliament.

He said: "When people say that the EU is unimportant, or doesn't affect them, it is only because they have not seen the blizzard of legislation which it introduces, and which Westminster duly rubber stamps into British law.

"This is the equivalent of one new piece of legislation every 3 hours of every day, with each one adding a new burden, and a new cost, to life in the UK. No wonder the old parties don't want to talk about the EU."

The breakdown is given below: listed in the following order:

Month/Regulations/Directives/Other Legislation

2009
June         115    20    108
July            132 8      95
August         94    27 48
September 123 9    128
October      130    23 97
November   116    14    79
December   139    17   209
2010
January       120   21   114
February       77   10     83
March    109 11    128
April              94   6      81
May             106   1    64

Totals       1355 167 1234

Grand total 2756