On 03/10/2019 22:24, Steve Walker wrote:

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Far better that ouir own experts/government can set our own standards if
necessary. It makes sense to stick to EU standardsÂ* generally, but for
some things, it might suit us to have a good enough, but less stringest
standard and on others, we might prefer to have a stonger standard.

We do have a stronger standard on many things.
The EU doesn't stop us.
We also try and get that stronger standard adopted by the EU.
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.