EU membership has made it easier to travel, live and work wherever we want to in any member state.

• Millions of British holidaymakers travelling in the EU are fully covered for any emergency hospital treatment they may require.
• Pet passports, introduced in 2001, mean British travellers can take their pets with them when they go abroad for work or on holiday.
• Over 300,000 people are drawing their UK state pensions in another member state, mostly Spain and Ireland.

EU membership has driven up environmental standards.

• EU pressure has improved UK water bathing quality: 98 per cent of the UK's beaches now comply with the EU Bathing Water Directive's standards.
• It has helped us to cut carbon emissions and reduced acid rain (the UK has cut sulphur emissions by 73 per cent between 1990 and 2002).
  The EU has introduced a framework to improve air quality further.

EU membership has been good for consumers.

• Competition in the single market has helped to improve product quality, increase variety and keep prices down. EU membership has brought down the price of international phone calls and air travel within the EU.
• All food products must carry "best before" markings, price indicators and a list of ingredients, colourings and additives which they contain. The EU Eco-label gives information about the most environmentally friendly products.
• EU consumer law (similar to UK statutory consumer rights) applies wherever goods are bought in the European Union. EU-wide car safety rules ensure cars meet high standards in protecting occupants.

The EU has been active in promoting measures to ensure that disadvantaged groups do not suffer unfair treatment or discrimination.

• Existing and proposed measures for disabled people include ensuring disabled access to all public places and working with airports and airlines to allow passengers with reduced mobility better access to flights.
• Under EU law it is illegal to discriminate in the workplace on the grounds of sex, race or ethnic origin, religion, belief, disability, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.
• Since 2006, EU legislation has outlawed unjustified discrimination in employment on the basis of age.

EU membership has enriched opportunities for cross-cultural study across Europe.

• Well over 1 million young people since 1995 have benefited from involvement in the EU education and training programme, in part working or studying in another member state.
• The EU's principal education and training programme, known as the Lifelong Learning Programme, has a budget of  €7 bn to support projects and activities that foster interchange, cooperation and mobility between education and training systems within the EU.
• Under the Leonardo programme, part of Lifelong Learning, UK training providers and businesses have led over 350 transitional training partnerships. UK organisations participate in about 60 per cent of all Leonardo partnerships.
• Through the Erasmus programme about 8,000 UK undergraduates a year spend between three and 12 months at a university in another member state.
• British qualifications have equal worth in other EU countries, thanks to an EU ruling.