gold-plating

gold-plating
   excessive bureaucratic regulation and enforcement
   Literally, no more than adding an attractive gloss to something. Under English common law, everything is legal unless express prohibited by law, when the law must be obeyed and enforced. The imposed European system operates on the converse principle whereby, under a process known as tolérance, unnecessary or intrusive regulations are suitably modified or ignored:
    What they did object to was 'gold plating' — Britain adding so much to European Directives and enforcing them with such zeal that British companies are at a disadvantage to competitors with less rigorous enforcement. (Daily Telegraph, 11 March 1996)

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