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The principle of copying out the text of European directives directly into UK law was adopted in 2010, along with avoiding transposition into UK law earlier than the date specified in the relevant directive, unless there were "compelling reasons" for earlier implementation. Previously, a 2006 review of gold-plating by
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included a pledge to end gold-plating; the original policy guidelines were finalised in June 2011. Specifically, they stipulate that all EU legislation be reviewed every five years by "all departments...to ensure that they are only implementing the absolute minimum regulation necessary to comply".
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treats gold-plating as a source of interference with policy outcomes, defining gold-plating as "an excess of norms, guidelines and procedures accumulated at national, regional and local levels, which interfere with the expected policy goals to be achieved by such regulation". Business
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as an example of gold-plated EU legislation, because it had granted temporary workers the right to performance-related bonuses, something that was not in the original EU law, which dealt with "the right to the same pay as permanent staff".
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In Italy, gold-plating has often been used as a device to pass through controversial measures and to ensure a lower degree of parliamentary scrutiny, particularly in periods of weak government.
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generally argue against gold-plating, because additional regulation tends to raise costs for businesses, but there are a few companies who stand to benefit from it.
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found that some EU laws had indeed been "over-implemented", but Lord Davidson had cautioned against "copying out the text of a directive".
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does in fact have jurisdiction to interpret EU law, even if the case at hand is not directly governed by EU law.
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is a term used to characterise the process whereby the powers of an
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measures in recent years, which effectively prohibit gold-plating.
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Mateo Boci; Jan Marten De Vet; Andreas Pauer (February 2014).
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Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union
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Government ends goldplating of European regulations
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Gold-plating (European Union law)
Gold plating (disambiguation)
EU directive
transposed
member state
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
European Commission
lobbyists
European Court of Justice
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Agency Workers Regulations 2010
deregulation
Lisbon Summit
European Commission
maximum harmonisation
2010 coalition agreement
Lord Davidson QC
Minimum harmonisation
Transposition (law)


'Gold-plating' in the EAFRD: To what extent do national rules unnecessarily add to complexity and, as a result, increase the risk of errors?
Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union
"Compliance, Transposition and Gold-Plating"
University of Manchester
the original
"Better Regulation: Simplification"
the original
"Tories pledge to cut EU red tape"
BBC News

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