Oil & Gas UK has reiterated its earlier opposition to the European Commission’s proposed safety regulation for the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry.
The organisation attended a meeting in meeting in Brussels, Belgium, this week and said that the law is more likely to damage the safety of UK operations than improve it.
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Oil & Gas UK chief executive Malcolm Webb said: "While we will always support proper moves to improve safety standards, this proposal to dismantle the UK’s world-class safety regime, which is built on decades of experience, and replace it with new centralised EU regulation is likely to have exactly the opposite effect.
"The commission has put forward an unjustified, poorly-worded and ambiguous draft regulation, which risks causing serious confusion within the industry and a very significant amount of unnecessary and unproductive work for regulators in the UK and elsewhere."
The trade body said that the new law would stretch the resources of those regulators and divert attention from their work with the industry on front line safety issues. Three countries including the UK, Netherlands and Denmark, of the 27 EU member states have offshore oil and gas industries of real scale. Norway, which is within the European economic area, is also subject to this regulation.
Oil & Gas UK is a representative organisation for the UK offshore oil and gas industry.
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