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{{dablink|This article deals with the economic term. For the technique, see the article [[Gold plating]] or [[plating]].}}
'''Gold-plating''' is a term relating to [[European Union law]], used particularly in the UK.
Gold-plating refers to the practise of national bodies exceeding the terms of [[European Community]] [[European Union directive|directives]] when implementing them into national law. In the [[United Kingdom]] business lobbyists argue that the government and its agencies often tag additional measures on to the back of European Directives which place UK business at a competitive disadvantage in relation to other EU states where directives are implemented more literally.
In [[Italy]], gold-plating has often been used as a device to pass through controversial measures and to ensure a lower degree of parliamentary scrutiny, particularly in periods of weak government.
EU governments committed themselves to a [[deregulation]] agenda at the Lisbon Summit in [[2000]], and as a consequence the [[European Commission]] has supported more [[maximum harmonisation]] measures in recent years, which effectively prohibit gold-plating.
==See also==
* [[minimum harmonisation]]
U.S. Government- The tendency of Pentagon officials to ask weapons contractors to meet excessively high requirements.
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