Eurocrats in push to pull the plug on the pinta (Daily Mail 30 January 2006)
The traditional pinta is under threat from the EU which wants to replace it with litre and half-litre bottles. Milk is one of a number of staples Brussels wants put in standardised metric packages. Bread, sugar, butter and rice are also being targeted.

No pints? Dairy me (The Sun 30 January 2006)
Meddling Brussels Eurocrats want to ban the traditional British pinta and replace it with metric sizes.

Pint-sized EU upstarts (Daily Express 30 January 2006)
We must save our pinta. The EU bureaucrats think we should quaff our milk, and beer, in litres and half litres. […]The Daily Express has news for them. In Britain, we have been happy with pints, miles an hour and feet and inches for hundreds of years – and no one is confused.

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Smoky bacon-flavoured crisps and other artificially smoke-flavoured foods are to be outlawed under new Euro regulations. The European parliament has declared that the chemicals producing the distinctive taste, extracted from condensed woodsmoke, may contain cancer-causing agents.
(The Sunday Times, 4 May 2003, page 3)
 

 New EU measures have been proposed that aim to safeguard public health and consumer interests because many “smoke flavourings” are derived from the condensates of smoke, and these may contain harmful chemicals. To be as certain as possible that these flavourings do not pose a health risk, the proposed directive would establish a proper testing system applicable across the whole of the EU. However there is no proposal at all to ban smoky bacon crisps or other smoke-flavoured foods. Furthermore, the industry is broadly in favour of the moves because it would mean products were subject to a single set of rules – at present, standards vary from …

 London’s West End, home to some of the world’s most cramped theatre seats, is facing a European Union directive to give the audience more room…The seating sub-committee of the EU standardisation committee is set to introduce the measure this year.
(The Sunday Times, p7, 20 February 2000)
The European Standardisation Committee (CEN) is a voluntary body made up of national standards agencies and affiliated industry/consumer organisations from nineteen European countries. It has nothing to do with the EU. The EU is not involved in setting theatre seat standards.

As from December 1995 the European Commission is outlawing Britain’s traditional mushy peas.

Daily Telegraph, p3, 9 August 1995
Today, p2, 9 August 1995
Daily Mail, p13, 10 August 1995
The Sun, p3, 10 August 1995
Daily Mirror, p9, 10 August 1995
Daily Express, p23, 10 August 1995
Western Daily Press, 10 August 1995
Western Morning News, 10 August 1995
Evening Mail, p4, 10 August 1995
Independent on Sunday, p18, 13 August 1995
Sunday Express, p37, 13 August 1995
Sunday Times, p29, 27 August 1995
This is not entirely correct. The European Commission consulted extensively with Governments and the food industry before drafting a Directive governing colours in foodstuffs, and permitting those colours to be harmless. The Directive was subsequently adopted by the European Parliament and the Council (94/36/EC), and came into force in December 1996.

One of the Directive’s general principles is that fresh and processed vegetables may not be coloured. However certain exceptions are allowed, and were introduced into the legislation following …

Myth: The traditional British toilet is under threat from a Brussels Directive which will force the UK to allow sales of cheaper and less sanitary Spanish and French models. Furthermore, British manufacturers fear any EU legislation, due to apply in 1997, will also herald the end of the syphonic flush system as perfected by Thomas Crapper& Co. in the 1880s.
(The Sunday Times, p. 17, 9.4.95 Today, 10.4.95)
Response: This ought not be the case. The scare has arisen in the context of moves that might eventually result in a set of common EU minimum requirements for lavatory manufacturers so that consumers across the Single Market can be assured that what they are buying is safe, hygenie and environmentally sound.

The relevant EU legislation, the 1988 Construction Products Directive, sets out the framework for harmonised standards in this area, stating that they will be developed exclusively by independent, private standardisation bodies within CEN …