Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new EU directives and regulations have been transposed into UK law by his Department since May 2010.

The Department for Transport has transposed 44 EU directives since May 2010. This number comprises fully transposed directives which originated from the European Commission’s Directorate General Mobility and Transport.

The Department for Transport has been tracking EU regulations since 08/07/2010. Since that date, 164 EU regulations in the Department for Transport’s area of responsibility have come into effect.

Details of all EU legislation, including full details of all EU regulations that came into force before 08/07/2010, can be found on the Commission’s website:

http://old.eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm for older legislation and http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en for legislation since 1st April 2014.