Home Information Packs (HIPs).
The Government introduced Home Information Packs in 2006 in order to implement the EU’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (2002/91/EC), which requires all homes to have an energy performance certificate.
The cost of these to UK households will be around £337 million a year. By 2020, EPCs will have cost the UK £4.7 billion.

Fortnightly bin collections.
The EU’s Landfill Directive (1999/31/EC) obliges the UK to reduce the amount of landfill waste by 25% from 1995 levels by 2010, a 50% reduction by 2013 and a 65% reduction by 2020. The Directive was implemented by the Landfill (England and Wales) Regulations, which came into force on 15 June 2002. Failure to meet the regulations will result in fines estimated by DEFRA at more than £200 million if targets are not met by 2013. In order to meet the regulations, and avoid EU fines, around 40% of local authorities in England have adopted an ‘alternate weekly collection’ system whereby waste is collected one week and recyclables the next.

The EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC)
Adopted in 2000, which DEFRA estimates will cost firms, and ultimately consumers through higher bills, between £450m and £630m.

Higher food prices.
The EU taxes imports of lamb at 173%, beef at 149% and bananas at 118%. EU trade barriers have a bigger negative impact on Britain than on almost every other EU country, because over 50% of our trade takes place with countries outside the EU. Because of EU rules, Britain is denied the benefits of free trade with its biggest trading partner, the US.
A study by Oxford Economics in 2005 concluded that the average family of four would be £2,500 a year better off if the EU got rid of its tariffs and liberalised trade with its partners.

Britain pays twice as much in EU's custom duties as France, and more than Germany, (even though it has a much larger population than Britain), providing Brussels with 43% of the EU’s total tax revenue from food imports. All this affects Britain’s poorest people the most, because they spend proportionally more of their income on imported food and clothing than richer social groups. Research by Oxford Economics shows that if the EU were to scrap its trade barriers, the poorest ten percent of people in the country would gain six times more than the richest ten percent.

Smoking (1)
The written warnings on cigarette packets, such as “Smoking seriously damages your health” were introduced by the Government in 2003 in order to implement the EU Tobacco Products Directive (2001/37/EC).

Smoking (2)
EU Directive (2003/33/EC) bans tobacco advertising in printed publications, in radio broadcasting and in information society services. It also bans the sponsorship of events which have a cross-border effect and seek to promote tobacco products.
All forms of television advertising for cigarettes and other tobacco products are banned by the Television Without Frontiers Directive (89/552/EEC).

Beer
Disappearance of the Crown signs on pints. The EU’s Measuring Instruments Directive (2004/22/EC), which came into force in October 2006, bans the crown symbol on pints and replaces it with a CE sign. The Government has confirmed that the Crown sign is not even allowed to appear alongside the CE sign.

Food
Lists of ingredients and warnings on food products. A series of EU directives, based on Directive (2000/13/EC), lay down rules on the labelling of foodstuffs to be delivered to consumers. EU legislation requires all ingredients in foodstuffs to be listed on the label, and for labels to warn if the product contains allergens, such as nuts or celery. This includes alcoholic drinks.

Energy saving products
High price of energy saving products. the EU currently imposes a 66.1% tariff on low-energy light bulbs from China, Vietnam, Pakistan and the Philippines. A single energy efficient light bulb equivalent to 60 watts can cost as much as £4, but without the anti-dumping duty and the VAT, the price would be 66p – a price drop of more than 80%. The price of bicycles, energy efficient cars, wind turbines, solar panels, supermarket-bought ethanol, insulation, condensing boilers, water management systems and heat exchangers could all be reduced by significant amounts if EU-imposed VAT rates and tariffs were abolished. The EU has set a minimum rate of VAT at 15%, and cutting this for green products in the UK would require agreement at the EU level.

Royal Mail
New Royal Mail pricing rules. New rules introduced by Royal Mail in August 2006 called “Pricing in Proportion” require post items to be priced by size as well as weight.
EU legislation designed to harmonise postal services lie behind the new rules - namely the EU Postal Services Directive (97/67/EC). The directive's aim was to liberalise the EU's postal services by opening them up to competition, and lays down that "prices must be geared to costs".

Banning vitamins and minerals.
The EU’s Food Supplements Directive (2002/46/EC), due to come into force by 2009, lays down a list of which vitamins and minerals may be used in food supplements as well as rules on food labelling. The Directive is likely to mean a ban on around 200 food supplements and place limits on the dosages in which supplements can be sold.
In 2005, the Directive was dubbed “illegal” by an Advocate General at the European Court of Justice after a group of retailers and consumer associations in the UK challenged it in the court. However the Court ruled in favour of the Commission.

Fewer and more expensive fish.
The EU’s Common Fisheries Policy sets quotas for which member states are allowed to catch what amounts of each type of fish. In practice, this forces UK fishermen to throw huge quantities of fish – up to 90% of the catch – back dead into the sea in order to conform to the quotas.
The result is diminishing fish stocks and increasing prices. The policy has been described by the EU’s own Fisheries Commissioner – who is responsible for it – as “morally wrong”.

Pounds & ounces
The end of selling in pounds and ounces only. Under EU law (Directive 80/181/EEC), all quantities of food for sale must be expressed in metric, in accordance with the “International System of Units”. Currently, the UK has an exemption which allows it to also use imperial measurements alongside metric measurements; however, it is illegal to use imperial measures only, and several market traders selling fruit and vegetables using imperial scales have been arrested in the last few years.

Car booster seats
Car booster seats for children. Because of EU Directive (2003/20/EC), since September 2006 children up to the height of 135 cm, or those under 12 years old (whichever criteria is reached first), must be restrained by a booster seat when travelling in a car. Drivers can be fined up to £500 for being in breach of the regulations.

Photocard driving licences.
EU Directive (91/439/EC) required all driving licences issued by the UK after July 2001 to be in card format and to contain the licence holder’s image and signature and the EU flag. Photocard licences began to replace paper licences in 1998. Because of the introduction of the photo, drivers must renew their photocards every 10 years from 2008.

The Data Retention Directive:
The Data Retention Directive means Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC;

The retention of communications data in the UK has moved from a voluntary to a mandatory system in line with the EU Directive 2006/24/EC. By completing the transposition of the EU Directive the UK will extend retention to internet usage (inc internet e-mails) as well as phone-calls, mobile phone-calls (inc location), faxes and e-mails. The Home Office say that only traffic data will be retained but internet usage effectively reveals "content" too by tracking the web pages visited.
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The Right Of Citizens Of The Union And Their Family Members
Application of Directive 2004/38/EC of 29 April 2004 On The Right Of Citizens Of The Union And Their Family Members To move And Reside Freely Within The Territory Of The Member States

Transport competition
One example of such a tidying-up exercise in the field of rail, road and inland waterway transport is:
Council Regulation (EC) No 169/2009 of 26 February 2009 applying rules of competition to transport by rail, road and inland waterway (Codified version), has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) 5.3.2009 L 61/1.

The scope of this Regulation, based on Article 83 of the Treaty establishing the European Community (TEC) and with EEA relevance, is:

Article 1
Scope
The provisions of this Regulation shall, in the field of transport by rail, road and inland waterway, apply both to all agreements, decisions and concerted practices which have as their object or effect the fixing of transport rates and conditions, the limitation or control of the supply of transport, the sharing of transport markets, the application of technical improvements or technical cooperation, or the joint financing or acquisition of transport equipment or supplies where such operations are directly related to the provision of transport services and are necessary for the joint operation of services by a grouping within the meaning of Article 3 of road or inland waterway transport undertakings, and to the abuse of a dominant position on the transport market. These provisions shall apply also to operations of providers of services ancillary to transport which have any of those objects or effects.