David's Digest

Once again, according to some of todays newspapers, the EU is wasting its time and potentially costing consumers more money by sticking its nose into unimportant issues. Apparently the EU Parliament last week voted to ban the sale of food items by numbers and to insist they shall only be sold by weight.

In other words, if this measure becomes law, as it may well do, it will be illegal to sell eggs by the dozen, or oranges or bread rolls or any number of items by the number in a container. Instead they will have to be sold by weight and that information printed on the bag in which the goods are carried. Given that many such items are sold in transparent containers the ruling adds nothing to the information available to the purchaser because they can clearly see what they are getting.

Its yet another piece of idiotic bureaucracy of the straight banana variety which simply adds to problems and costs with no benefits to consumers and it destroys the credibility of a body that I for one am glad is there. Wouldn't you think the European Parliament had enough real problems to deal with - like the value of the Euro, the economies of Greece, Ireland and Portugal and the growing pressure to allow the commercial production of GM crops - that it wouldn't have time to spend on such nonsense. The fact that they have must indicate that the EU is overstaffed with people seeking out useless things to do and that they should be drastically culled ASAP?