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  European Union (Amendment) Bill
  
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  <p>Those voting Content failed to carry an <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/glossary/?gl=114">amendment</a> to the <a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2007-08/europeanunionamendment.html">European Union (Amendment) Bill</a> that would have prevented competition rules from being under the exclusive competence of the European Union <i>unless</i> the Secretary of State reported on the operation of EU competition policy to Parliament each year. In other words, this amendment sought to ensure that EU competition policy was still subject to parliamentary scrutiny.</p> 
  
  <p pid="a.851.1/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 63; Not-Contents, 162.</p>
  
  
  
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