I was interested to read in the FT (full article here - but you need to subscribe) that the House of Commons library has estimated that EU legislation only accounts for about 9% of new regulations adopted in Britain each year, rather than the 50% or more often claimed by eurosceptics.

The library has analysed all statutory instruments adopted over the last five financial years, up to April 2004 and showed that the proportion arising out of agreements reached at European level come to about 9% per year - and many of them rather technical rules concerning trade or agriculture.

Don't count on the eurosceptics dropping their silly claims that we are being sucked into a super-state that dictates all of our laws from Brussels. They have never let the facts stand in the way of their claims.