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Löfstedt: FOIL comment on the report - Don Clarke, President of Forum of Insurance Lawyers

09/12/11. If you’re looking for a view on the health and safety report recently published by Prof. Löfstedt you can pay your money and take your choice: for the Daily Telegraph it demonstrated that EU safety rules are “costly and pointless”; the TUC regretted the “missed opportunity” to improve safety; and the Forum for Private Business was pleased to see a “health and safety bonfire”. So what is the key message? 

This is a report more about consolidation than abolition. Only three obsolete regulations are recommended for repeal with a further handful to be reviewed to reduce bureaucracy and increase proportionality.

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