3 to create rules and laws that are considered unnecessary or unhelpful, especially when making European Union rules into national laws: --
The current system encourages them to over-build and gold-plate airport facilities.
He said they should understand that when they gold-plate employment rights, they ultimately destroy jobs and prosperity.
He suggested some private schools might be better off providing bursaries to new students instead of needlessly "gold plating services" for existing pupils.
He says the pharmaceutical industry has to gold-plate its systems to meet US Food and Drug regulations.
She rejected fears that smaller companies were placed at a competitive disadvantage by Whitehall's tendency to "gold-plate" - be over-zealous - in implementing European regulation.
They gold-plate the spacecraft's instruments to assist with thermal control.
Silver jewellery that has been gold plated can still tarnish.
Massive cupboards covered an entire wall, all stuffed with silver and gold plate.
Other items in the collection include a gold plate and diamond-studded spoon made for the maharajas of Jaipur.
The jewellery is pretty and affordable, made of faux gems and inexpensive metals like silver and gold plate.