| Series Title | European Voice |
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| Series Details | 24/04/97, Volume 3, Number 16 |
| Publication Date | 24/04/1997 |
| Content Type | News |
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Date: 24/04/1997 Irish Fianna Fáil MEP Brian Crowley is practising what he preaches. Tasked with drawing up a parliamentary report on the Commission's Simpler Legislation for the Internal Market (SLIM) programme, he kept his recommendations down to a very digestible ten paragraphs. This compares with a report dealt with just before Crowley's at this month's parliamentary plenary session in Strasbourg, which ran to 178 paragraphs. Crowley, who has become something of a fanatic about the need to cut the weight of words in EU legislation, gave his colleagues a graphic illustration of just how succinct it is possible to be. The Lord's Prayer, he said, has 60 words; the Ten Commandments have 128; and the US Constitution 457, with an extra 142 words of subsequent amendments. On the other hand, a recent EU directive on the presentation and sale of certain types of products contained 29,547 words... |
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| Subject Categories | Internal Markets |
