b'of the EU Postal Services Directive steeredThe European Arrest Warrant negates at a through the European Parliament by thestroke a vital part of 900 years of English British (Labour) MEP Brian Simpson inCommon Law, including the presumption of 1997.50 Before that directive, the Royal Mailinnocentuntil proven guilty. had been able to cross-subsidise rural postWere Turkey to become a member of the offices. Furthermore, the directive forcedEU, British citizens would then be liable to Royal Mail to open commercial mail deliverybe carted off to a Turkish prison under the to competition from European companies,European Arrest Warrant. If anybody still enabling them to cream off the bestremembers the 1978 film MidnightExpress, business.this prospect is scary! For my part, I would not wish a Turkish prison on my worst enemy. 4.5. European Arrest Warrant (EAW) The primary purpose of the law in the Anglo- American world is not to lock up peoplebut to protect us from arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. Hence, we have had habeascorpus - no imprisonment without trial or, more accurately, without charge - since,arguably, Magna Carta. Now, under the European Arrest Warrant, a prosecutor in another EU member state can serve awarrant so that any resident of the UK is carted off to prison in their country. EUcountries now include Bulgaria and Romania. 4.6. We cannot use the light bulbs we want Incandescent bulbs have had to be replaced as a consequence of directives 2009/125/EC (Ecodesign Directive), 2008/28/EC (Amending Directive) and 2005/32/EC (Ecodesign Directive).51 52 53 The replacement bulbs produce a different, lesser quality of light.Moreover, the EU specified that light bulbs must contain mercury, a poisonous neurotoxin. There are significant problems in how, eventually, to dispose of the mercury in these EU light bulbs, another ill-thought-out EU directive.50'