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EU Law

Volume 502: debated on Wednesday 9 December 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what (a) statutory instruments and (b) other regulations his Department has brought forward to meet obligations arising from EU law in this Parliament. (304182)

The Statutory Instruments Registrar has maintained central records of statutory instruments made under specific powers, including those in the European Communities Act 1972, since 2001. There is no central record of which statutory instruments were made using other powers in order to meet obligations arising from EU law, and it would be disproportionately costly to create such a record now. There is also no central record of “other regulations”. Since 2001, the Ministry of Justice and its predecessor departments (the Lord Chancellor's Department and the Department for Constitutional Affairs) have been responsible for 17 statutory instruments made using the powers in the European Communities Act 1972. A list of those instruments is as follows:

SI No.

SI Title

2001/310

European Communities (Matrimonial Jurisdiction and Judgments) Regulations 2001

2001/3928

Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Authentic Instruments and Court Settlements) Order 2001

2001/3929

Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Order 2001

2002/3061

European Communities (Rights against Insurers) Regulations 2002

2004/293

European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004

2004/304

European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Common Electoral Principles) Order 2004

2004/1117

European Communities (Services of Lawyers) (Amendment) Order 2004

2004/1374

European Parliamentary Elections (Common Electoral Principles) Regulations 2004

2004/1628

European Communities (Lawyer's Practice) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

2005/265

European Communities (Jurisdiction and Judgments in Matrimonial and Parental Responsibility Matters) Regulations 2005

2007/1655

Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Regulations 2007

2008/1647

European Parliament (House of Lords Disqualification) Regulations 2008

2008/2986

Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations (England and Wales and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008

2008/81

European Communities (Lawyer's Practice and Services of Lawyers) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

2009/726

European Parliamentary Elections (Franchise of Relevant Citizens of the Union) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

2009/3064

Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (England and Wales and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2009

2009/3131

Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Regulations 2009