untitled: "It categorises bananas, it doesn't regulate them or control their sale." - it's a regulation, geddit, regulation means it's a rule to be adhered to, from wikipedia:
//Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2257/94 of 16 September 1994 laying down quality standards for bananas, sometimes referred to in the media as the bendy banana law, is a European Union regulation specifying classification standards for bananas//
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//This regulation requires that bananas as a minimum standard must not have "abnormal curvature"//
What little knowledge you seem to have about the entity you wish to be ruled by.
"Oh dear, how oppressive. I wonder how on earth the peoples of Europe can cope under such tyranny. " - indeed, hopefully the other nations will see how well we do outside and follow suit, then the whole sorry edifice will come crashing down.