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This paper explores various approaches to the question of how much national law is based on or influenced by EU law. Generally speaking, successive Treaty amendments have introduced new areas of European action, giving rise to more EU measures. The number of EU laws reached a peak of over 14,000 instruments in the early 1980s and there was a lower peak in the mid-1990s, with the enactment of the remainder of a raft of legislation to complete the internal market. The volume has generally fallen since then.