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Brussels rules cost £18bn a year
Sunday, 20th December 2009
The cost of European Union regulations — ranging from restrictions on working hours to limits on the noise at which orchestras can play — is costing Britain more than £18 billion a year, a report has found, reports The Sunday Times
The most expensive law is the working time regulation, passed in 1998. According to the research by the think tank Open Europe, this costs £3.5 billion annually. The regulation has also been blamed by an official inquiry for contributing to unnecessary hospital deaths.
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