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<p>The Recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive came into force on
19 May 2010, with a transposition date of 9 January 2013.</p><p>The Departmental portfolio
includes EU Regulations that do not require transposition such as the EU Construction
Products Regulation which was adopted in March 2011 and came fully into force in July
2013 and the European Structural and Investment Funds Regulations.<br><br>It is the
Department's policy under this Government to avoid and reverse the gold-plating of
EU directives by the Labour Government; for example, we have done this on the Energy
Performance of Buildings Directive by scaling back the rules on Energy Performance
Certificates to the minimum requirements of the directive and scrapping Home Information
Packs.<br><br>We also wish to renegotiate powers back to the United Kingdom where
appropriate; as a small but pertinent example, my Department has successfully removed
the legal requirement in the European Regional Development Fund Regulations (introduced
in 2006 under the Labour Government) to fly the EU flag outside our building for one
week a year after Europe Day.</p>
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