Thursday, 5 February 2009

european union directives and regulations

Cllr Adrian Smith » Blog Archive » Bill Newton-Dunn's report
By adriansmith
If HMG had fully transposed the EU Directive into UK law the current brouhaha would not have been possible. But Blair wanted a ‘light regulatory touch’ (as Gordon Brown also did with regulation of the banks). ...
Cllr Adrian Smith - http://adriansmith.mycouncillor.org.uk/
Open Europe press summary: 5 Feb 2009 : RESISTANCE
By George Flemming
Open Europe has published a new briefing arguing that what people have really been objecting to in the last couple of weeks is the basic EU principle of free movement, not individual directives or court cases. ... Writing on the Conservative Home website, Open Europe Research Director Mats Persson looks in detail at Open Europe's new research on the cost of EU regulations, which finds that "EU regulations introduced in the past ten years have cost the UK ...
RESISTANCE - http://antieu.com/
Anglican Mainstream » Blog Archive » New Proposed European Anti ...
By Jill
The loose wording of the new EU harassment law leaves huge scope for bogus and trivial complaints which will limit freedom of speech and religious liberty. The sexual orientation regulations in England and Wales did not include harassment. ... There are many unanswered questions as to the compatibility of the proposed Directive for religious organisations and individuals with the ECHR, the EU Charter of Fundamental Human Rights and the Declaration on ...
Anglican Mainstream - http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/
open...: Is the EU Acting Duplicitously Over ACTA?
By glyn moody
ACTA is not designed to negatively affect consumers: the EU legislation (2003 Customs Regulation) has a de minimis clause that exempts travellers from checks if the infringing goods are not part of large scale traffic. ...
open... - http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/