§ Mr. Roperasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will request the Commission to propose to the Council of Ministers of European Communities a regulation amending Regulation 858/71 in order to clarify the meaning of "entity governed by private law" in the English legal context.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithProvision is made in the Treaty of Accession—page 170 of Cmnd. 5179-I—for the phrase mentioned to be amplified by the words
or, in Member States where this concept is unknown by equivalent entitiesIf the hon. Member has any particular case in mind which raises difficulty, I shall be happy to consider it.