Less, but there again Europe in general is not litigation crazy in the way that the US is.

With multi-million dollar US lawsuits for coffee being hot, or for a peanut M&M not having a peanut in it, etc., etc., I guess that US companies and organizations need to be much more anal about their exposure than is the case in Europe.

(Yes, there are some dumb suits filed in Europe too, but far less of them, plus the juries there tend not to be quite so willing to award millions to the idiots who initiate these suits).

I'm not saying that all of the current regs are necessary - just that we should expect to be more regulated than many other countries simply because of the way our legal system "works".

Gordon