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The examples of violations will be similar - any measures that restrict
retail development on the basis of their potential damage to existing
businesses or neighbourhood character, any zoning or store hours
regulations for which there is a less "trade restrictive" alternative,
etc. The UK part of this will be especially easy to do because your
government, in contrast to other European nations, put zero limitations
on its retail commitments when the EC GATS schedule was submitted in
1995.

Since it is the EC, and notably not the US (and now not Canada), that is
pushing for new disciplines on domestic regulation to be negotiated
through the GATS, it is Europe where this issue has to be taken on.   I
questioned your top DG Trade officials at a transatlantic meeting  about
why the EU would be pursuing enhanced consumer regulation on food
origins, etc. and that same time as they are establishing the grounds to
undermine these same regulations through new domestic regulation
disciplines in the GATS.  The response was incredibly adamant. The EC
will pursue getting GATS domestic regulation disciplines, that they
believe the trade offs that there have to be made between expanding
trade and consumer protection are ones they can live with, and that
zoning and store hour regulations need to be disciplined because they
are used for protectionist purposes.  When I questioned one DG Trade
official particularly on the zoning issue, he said that even EU local
governments use this for protectionist purposes so he agreed with the
proposal to put zoning on the list of regulations to be targeted. DG
Trade clearly wants European local governments to be disciplined by new
GATS rules on domestic regulation.