Wednesday, 15 April 2009


The Financial Services Club's Blog: Can regulators really regulate ...
By Chris Skinner
Then there is the EU process of evolving regulations for Capital Adequacy and Solvency II, UCITS IV, Retail Investment Products, Market Abuse and more. Finally, there is now the global agenda of the G20 to create consistent supervision ... These Directives have attacked the simplistic areas of retail financial products, insurance, payments and investing. Now, with the credit crisis and the realisation of the complexity of global derivatives, we are tackling the complex ...
The Financial Services Club's Blog - http://thefinanser.co.uk/fsclub/
Fordham International Intellectual Property Conference, Plenary ...
By Jason Lunardi
In the EU, the adoption of a new directive or regulation is very difficut, 6+ years. Often involves much tradeoff, little to do with the merits of the proposal. For this reason, the ECJ feels more comfortable with creating their own ...
IPLJ - http://iplj.net/blog/

New e-waste rules may be too much for UK business, warns Gov
Register - London,England,UK
The Directive had imposed a target for each EU member state of collecting 4 kilograms of electrical or electronic waste for every citizen of the country. ...
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Farm leaders demand overhaul of EU red tape
FarmersWeekly - UK
Industry leaders are demanding an overhaul of EU regulation affecting farmers, ahead of the European Parliament elections on 4 June. ...
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Obama is an appeasing 'useful idiot' to Islam & America's enemies ...
renewamerica.us - Washington,DC,USA
In his own hypocritical arrogant way, Mr. Obama also had the audacity to call for the European Union to allow Turkey admission into its club. ...
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Eighty-five per cent of our laws come from Brussels
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
In practice there are a very large number of EU regulations in agriculture, while very few affect education or housing. Cottager Heath was the vilest, ...
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Silicon.com
Legal Eye: Ecommerce held back by outdated laws
Silicon.com - UK
The Office of Fair Trade (OFT) has responded cautiously to a newly proposed EC Consumer Rights Directive whereby all EU countries would have the same level ...
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