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Europe:The Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform's (BERR) European work

BERR ministers attend many of the European Union Councils that take decisions on policies directly affecting businesses, consumers and employees – for example, the Competitiveness, Employment, Energy and Telecommunications Council.

BERR is responsible for transposing most legislation originating in the EU, in areas such as technical standards, research, consumer protection, company law and corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, enterprise and industry policy, intellectual property, some aspects of employment law, many measures relating to energy and sustainable development, market liberalisation, trade policy, governance of the structural funds and a number of measures affecting telecoms.

BERR officials therefore work closely with members of the EU Commission, the European Parliament and officials in other Member States to develop policy in these key areas.

A Practical guide to the EU

Last year BERR under its former name of DTI Published "A Guide to Working with the European Union"

This booklet aims to give practical tips to business on how they can have their say in the EU lawmaking process and gives pointers to other sources of information on accessing funding and doing business with the EU.

Click on related document links on right of this page to view electronic version of the guide.

Hard copies are also available to UK business, employee and consumer organisations directly from DTI’s Publications Unit (tel: 0845 015 0010 e-mail: publications@berr.gsi.gov.uk), quoting reference URN 06/1262.

Guide to navigating this site:

Individual pages can be accessed via the left-hand bar and attachments where indicated can be viewed or downloaded by clicking on Related or External Links sections in the right-hand column of each page.

Contact

Response Centre
Tel: 020 7215 5000
or: 020 7215 6740 (Minicom)
Fax: 020 7215 0105
email: berr.enquiries@berr.gsi.gov.uk

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