Wednesday 19 August 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

Successfully Navigating Cross-Border E-Discovery Disputes
TechNewsWorld
Although the 30 member states have implemented the Directive in different ways, the main thrust is that data transfers to counties outside the EU are ...
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HostDime Web Hosting Firm, Certified Under US-EU Safe Harbor
TheHostingNews.com (press release)
The US Department of Commerce developed the Safe Harbor framework to bridge differences between US and EU privacy law, and it is intended prevent accidental ...
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Working to Inspire an Empire
theTrumpet.com
In November, newswires reported that the Catholic Church wants Sunday observance enshrined in EU law, specifically a clause in the Working Time Directive ...
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Daily Mail
Shoppers still confused over their rights to exchange
Daily Mail
While the EU Directive 1999/44/EC sets in stone the two year period, if it became law and superseded the Sale of Goods Act, it would mean retailers would ...
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French green law 'breaks European packaging directive', says Europen
packagingnews.co.uk
The European Council for Packaging and the Environment (Europen) has blasted France's new environment law for breaching European packaging regulations. ...
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FSA Says Investor Cooperation Isn't Market Abuse
Bloomberg
... concern that calls for shareholders to have more of a voice in corporate management and compensation could violate European Union insider trading laws. ...
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Legal Implications of Cloud Computing — Part One (the Basics and ...
InfoSecCompliance
For example under the EU Data Protection Directive, unless they take certain steps, organizations are prohibited from transferring personal information to ...
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Suppose we just refuse to repay the central banks? | Zooot Europe
By Paul
Under normal conditions Iceland would have availed itself of the right under European law to pay out depositors in an orderly manner. But Mr. Brown prevented this by directing Britain's deposit-insurance agency to pay Icesave depositors as if they were covered by UK insurance. ... The EU directive dealt only with the collapse of individual banks, assuming this problem to be merely marginal in scope and hence readily affordable by signatory governments. ...
Zooot Europe - http://www.zooot.eu/
Iceland´s Refusal To Pay, A Quantum Leap Away From Debt-Slavery ...
By Notsilvia Night
The relevant EU law gives the responsible authorities a breathing space of three months to proceed with settlement – with a further six-month period where necessary. This would have enabled Iceland to collect from British bank clients such as the retail entrepreneur (and major Kaupthing ... He was reminded that unlike the Icesave branches, these were incorporated as British entities, making their accounts the responsibility of British regulation and deposit insurance. ...
Time to Think - http://notsylvia.wordpress.com/
EU Directives Will Close Down Most of Britain's Aluminium Industry ...
By Giuseppe De Santis
One of the negative consequences of Britain's membership of the EU is the disappearing of the manufacturing sector. Strangely very little has been said about how the EU regulations caused the closure of several manufacturing plants ... The NDA's lawyers therefore had to tell the aluminium plant's owners that, under EU law, the discount deal now constituted “state aid”, and would no longer be legal. This will leave Britain with just one large remaining aluminium plant at ...
London Patriot - http://www.londonpatriot.org/

Irish Lisbon opponents attack fiscal cuts, markets
Reuters
By Andras Gergely DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish opponents of the European Union's Lisbon reform treaty on Tuesday launched their campaign ahead of October's ...
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Czech senators postpone complaint against EU treaty
Czech Happenings
The Irish who rejected the treaty last summer will hold a repeated referendum on it on October 2. To come into force, the EU's reform Lisbon treaty needs to ...
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The Local - Hamburg
Berlin paves the way for ratification of EU treaty
The Local - Hamburg
... will allow the country to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, a parliamentary whip said on Tuesday, removing a key hurdle to a broad reform of the European Union. ...
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Britannia Radio
By Britannia Radio
Germany nears deal on EU treaty law. The News International BERLIN: Germany's ruling coalition is nearing an agreement on legislation allowing it to ratify the European Union's Lisbon reform treaty, a conservative . ...
Britannia Radio - http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/
Vision for EU... Eurocrat's perspective.: ...and if the Irish say no?
By Maciek
I do not mean I am against the Lisbon Treaty and want the Irish to reject it. After all it is a moderate compromise pushing the EU ahead in some issues and creating a couple of new, interesting jobs and services. But if on 2nd October we find out that the ... The Swedish presidency would have to go back to the drawing board and ask some serious questions about what democracy means and what happens when one small demos rejects a reform of elitist demoi-cracy in the making. ...
Vision for EU... Eurocrat's perspective. - http://v4eu.blogspot.com/
Irish Lisbon opponents attack fiscal cuts, markets (Reuters) | enUws
Reuters - Irish opponents of the European Union's Lisbon reform treaty on Tuesday launched their campaign ahead of October's referendum with a warning...
enUws - http://enuws.com/