Britain Run by the EUropean Union

Areas where competence has been handed over to Brussels:

• Environmental issues (including water and air pollution)
• Waste disposal
• Fisheries
• Employment and business law
• Agriculture (including Genetically Modified Organisms and Foot and Mouth Disease)
• Animal testing
• Public Health (including tobacco and similar issues)
• Health & Safety
• Food safety
• Weights and measures
• Consumer protection
• Copyright and Data Protection
• Rules governing every kind of manufacture and food production
• International trade policy

The EU now has influence over but will eventually take over responsibility for:

• Regional Policy
• Transport Policy
• Allocation of funds for scientific research and defence
• Public purchasing
• Collection of statistics
• Macro-economic policy including budget strategy and general taxation i.e. VAT rules
• 90% of Foreign Policy
• Britain's overseas aid programme
• Increasingly, judicial and police matters

Every Whitehall Ministry is now partly, or almost wholly, engaged in implementing laws and policies decided in Brussels!