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Same again
A reason that many (I am reliably informed) voted for Brexit was that whenever Brussels imposed new rules we - the law abiding UK - would always comply whereas EU states only did so when it suited them. It seems that even though we are no longer members of that illustrious partisan club we are still being shafted. Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.
This whole business falls out of ignorance of how we are governed, at any level. Particularly regarding EU legislation, this is illustrated by the difference between a Directive and a Regulation. A regulation is law and a directive is not and allows member states to pick their own path.
A perfect example is speed limiters on trucks. A fire brigade operating a national resource that they wanted to be able to deploy anywhere in the country talked to the RAF about airlifting the vehicles because, being limited to 90km/h, the vehicle could not get anywhere fast. The Directive explicitly exempts emergency service, military and certain utility vehicles (Art.6 IIRC) yet the UK Govt enforces it in such a way that emergency service drivers transporting life-saving apparatus across large distances were forced to travel at 56mph. Successive UK Governments keen on too much law, and their compliant bureaucrats, have been the problem all along and look where we are now.
Long past the time when we should have started calling stupid by its real name.