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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Already given you some clues.
I have reminded Ian of the General Data Protection Regulation, the Working Time Directive and Acquired Rights Directive, but there is tons more. Examples include:
The Health and Safety at Work Framework Directive (requires all businesses to keep written records of all risk assessments, regardless of risk)
The Tobacco Products Directive (which restricts e-cigarettes even though there are health benefits to smokers).
The Chemicals Directive (which requires companies to carry out a huge and unnecessary amount of animal testing costing millions of pounds to the chemicals industry)
The European Food Information for Consumers Regulation (which for example requires shops to attach warnings to their fish products that the product contains fish)
The Clinical Trials Directive (which hampers clinical research and makes more difficult the access patients have to innovative new treatments).
The Genetically Modified Organisms Directive (which prevents genome editing, which is preventing the discovery of effective treatments, for example for malaria).
This gives you just an essence of a flavour of how the EU is frustrating businesses of all types. There are hundreds of these regulations that need to be overhauled or repealed altogether.
Some of these were put in place with good intentions, but they have overegged it all to a ridiculous degree which just makes more work for everyone, often for little benefit.
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You’ve just given a list.
It doesn’t give me a flavour for anything. You’ve not meaningfully quantified the impact they have on businesses or how they are preventing “success”. What would you replace them with? You claim good intentions - so what do you replace them with to keep the benefits without the costs?
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See above 
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Nope. Your hyperbole fails the sniff test.