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Subject: Re: EU forces bus company to dump passengers every half hour Posted on: 27 Mar 2008 12:01:15 GMT

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:22:56 +0000, Peter Parry wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:51:33 -0000, "nightjar" > here>.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> I doubt it is beyond the
>>wit of man, and probably well within the scope of a commercially
>>available computer programme, to work out schedules that let drivers
>>whose routes exceed 31 miles have two days a week off.
>
> The problem is that the EU directive, like most, is overly prescriptive
> and written for the Napoleonic Code of law where anything which isn't
> specifically allowed is illegal.

I read this a lot. Can you point me to a reference that says unless
something is *expressly* permitted in the Code Napoleon it's actually
illegal?