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"Mr President, I suppose we should be grateful for the small mercies of subsidiarity and proportionality. The former tries, with very limited success, to prevent competences being exercised at EU level if they could be more efficiently exercised at Member State level. Indeed, when can they not? The latter attempts to prevent legislation going beyond, and I quote: ‘what is necessary to achieve the objects of the Treaty’. It is a pity we cannot cut off the last seven words and stop at the word ‘necessary’.
I would like to see a third principle being applied during the legislative process for as long as we have to put up with EU legislation at all. I would call this principle the ‘cost-benefit rule’ which would require that the calculated benefit of all legislation when quantifiable was equal to or greater than the cost it imposed on business and the public. In December 2009, Open Europe published a list of the 100 most costly EU laws and calculated the cumulative cost by 2020 to be GBP 184 billion."@en1
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