(June 24, 2016 at 10:47 am)madog Wrote: If you look further the UK have, in their own words, tried to introduce the EU directives in a soft a touch manner as possible ..... but the actual legislation is as harsh as the EU directed, they just intend to implement it as soft as possible ....
If a law can be implemented "as soft as possible" without any backlash from the EU, then it's not a harsh regulation. Harsh regulations would be ones which are mandated to be implemented in a particular way, not ones which use wishy-washy language that member countries are free to interpret however they want.