Possible Clues:

• Listening device concealed by old counsel that's securely legal
• 'Officialdom is a ruddy bind (3,4)'
• European barred by form of repeated bureaucracy
• Bureaucratic form-filling
• Intricate official routine
• Progress impediment
• Bureaucracy is the Socialist record
• Irritating bureaucracy affected trade with furthest parts of Europe
• Governmental hangup
• Bureaucratic papers and routines