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"Mr President, the Commission recently named the Product Safety Directive as one of the ten most burdensome pieces of European legislation. We set out to simplify the law and to reduce costs for businesses. Unfortunately, reform of this legislation aimed at improving the single market and protecting consumers has been hijacked by Socialists in this Parliament intent on creating a European nanny state.
Let me give you just one example: the Labour Party and their allies want ‘to prohibit the manufacture of products that are likely to be confused with foodstuffs due to their form, odour, colour, appearance, packaging, labelling, volume, size’ or indeed any other characteristics.
Now a business in my constituency manufactures soaps and bubble bars like these.
They look like carrots. That is the point. Yet the Socialists want to ban them because they look like food. Why? People love them and there has not been a single complaint. It would seem that the Left in this House are on a crusade to stop people accidentally gorging themselves on soap!
This is a perfect example of what is wrong with how we make laws in this place. This is, or could be, a helpful law that ensures safe products across Europe and across the single market. Instead politicians are using it to control people’s lives. If we want our constituents to trust us to make good laws, we must trust them to live their lives responsibly."@en1
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