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How to implement EU Directives without gold-plating: the use of 'copy-out' (News, 14 July 2011)

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Published on: 14 July 2011
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Three further operating principles have been added to complete the Government's 'Guiding Principles for EU legislation', which, together with a 'Transposition Guidance' document, are designed to end the 'gold-plating' of European Directives (ie the creation of domestic legislation which exceeds EU requirements), encouraging and explaining, for example, how Directives might be implemented by using a 'copy-out' method into domestic legislation.

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