§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Prime Minister if she will make a statement setting out the areas of Community decision-making which will now be subject to majority voting in consequence of the decisions made at Luxembourg on 2 and 3 December; and if she will provide some representative examples of the kind of directives or regulations which will no longer require unanimous consent.
§ The Prime MinisterI refer my hon. Friend to the statement I made to the House on 5 December at columns 429–30. Examples of measures which could be adopted by majority voting under article 100 include
—common technical standards intended to remove barriers to trade: these are frequently held up by objections from one or two member states;—certain consumer protection measures, eg the doorstep selling directive which has been blocked for some time by one member state;—certain proposals in the agricultural field related to the achievement of the internal market, subject to safeguards for human, animal and plant health.