HL Deb 24 March 1987 vol 486 c119

3.22 p.m.

Lord Bethell

My Lords, I beg to introduce a Bill to designate the Director General of Fair Trading as the competent authority in the United Kingdom for the purposes of Article 88 of the treaty establishing the European Economic Community. I beg to move that this Bill be now read a first time.

Moved, That the Bill be now read a first time.—(Lord Bethell))

On Question, Bill read a first time, and to be printed.