To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list those EU directives of which it is his Department's policy to seek a repeal, and about which he has approached other EU member states. [34624]

We are committed to simpler and better EU legislation which conforms with the principle of subsidiarity.This can often be achieved by simplifying existing legislation and ensuring that new legislation does not impose disproportionate burdens rather than by repeal.We are pursuing during the UK Presidency a number of means to achieve this, for example, through the Simpler Legislation for the Internal Market (SLIM) initiative, which aims to reduce the burden of certain internal market regulations.