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Written question asked by Priti Patel (Conservative) on Tuesday, 11 December 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 13 December 2012. It was answered by Mike Penning (Conservative) on Tuesday, 18 December 2012 on behalf of the Northern Ireland Office.

EU Law

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) which EU directives her Department transposed in (a) 2011 and (b) 2012 to date; which EU directives her Department expects to transpose in (i) 2013 and (ii) the next two years; and what estimate she has made of the cost of each such directive to the (A) public purse and (B) private sector;

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Answer

In the period 2011 to 2012 to date, my Department transposed the Identification and Traceability of Explosives (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2012—this partly transposed EU directive 2012/4/EU.

On present plans my Department expects to transpose in the next two years the Identification and Traceability of Explosives (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2013. (This will fully transpose EU directive 2012/4/EU).

There is no cost to the public purse arising from the directives that have been transposed to date. The cost to the public purse for the Identification and Traceability of Explosives (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2013 is expected to be minimal; there is no definitive estimate at present of cost to the private sector but initial indications are that it would be less than £100 per set of regulations.

In order to increase transparency, in the forthcoming Statement of New Regulation (SNR5) the Government will, for the first time, be publishing those new European Union (EU) measures which are being implemented in UK law and have a direct effect on business.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
133709; 555 c689W
Session
2012-13
Subjects
Costs EU law Northern Ireland Office Statutory instruments
Link
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