ACQUIS STREAMLINING
February 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLIN LEGAL terms, it is a Herculean task: streamlining and reducing the thousands of pages of the European Union's (EU) body of law, the acquis communautaire. However, the European Commission does not seem to be intimidated, after all, it proposed most of this legislation in the first place. As a result, it this week (Wed) released plans to chop 1,000 pages from the EU's Official Journal, the gazette where formal statements of European legislation are published. The idea of trimming EU law of its verbiage was first mooted in the run-up to the EU's ...
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