> Have a look at the first few paras of this: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX.... after it says "Whereas". Does the language look a little familiar? Do the sentiments look strangely familiar in some way?

The thing after "Whereas" is just a preamble stating the intentions, not the actual legal text. In this case, I scrolled down no fewer than 31 pages, thinking to myself "The whereas section can't be that long" until I finally found the real start of the legal text "HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION" on page 32 of 88.