- You may hear quoted figures of only 9%, or perhaps only 13%, as representing the percentage of our laws coming from the EU. That is a misrepresentation of the contents of a House of Commons Briefing Paper that stated about 13.2% of our laws come from the EU.
- But the paper warns that the figure does not take into account the large number of EU Regulations that automatically pass into UK law. The 13.2% figure refers solely to Acts of Parliament required to transpose EU Directives into law.
- Taking Regulations into account, the recalculated figure is more like 65%. That is within the range described under answer 17, which was between 50% and 80% in any given year, varying with the EU's legislative output.
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