Thursday 17 September 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

Telegraph.co.uk
EU: is Britain still a sovereign state?
Telegraph.co.uk
EU Regulations (as opposed to Directives) do not always give rise to a new UK law yet are nonetheless directly applicable. Even if we are talking about half ...
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EU legislation explained
Telegraph.co.uk
Regulations are in some ways equivalent to Acts of Parliament and are one of the most powerful forms of European Union law. When a regulation comes into ...
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BBC News
Unions urge EU labour law changes
BBC News
On Wednesday, delegates in Liverpool backed calls for reform of the Posted Workers Directive - an EU-wide law allowing firms to bring in workers from ...
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Which way for hedge funds?
FT Adviser
Since US regulations, for example, are not considered by the EU to be equivalent to the directive, "it is likely that US fund managers wishing to continue ...
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Czech Pro-Life Group Urges NO to Irish Lisbon Vote
Lifesite
Last year, the EU passed 177 directives, which are more or less equivalent to our Acts of Parliament, and 2033 regulations, which become directly ...
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Swiss banks propose universal withholding tax
Reuters
It would apply to both private individuals and legal entities, and be broader than a planned new EU savings tax directive. Under the plan, Swiss banks would ...
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Earthtimes (press release)
DataCert Delivers Comprehensive VAT Solution With New Digital ...
Earthtimes (press release)
DataCert is the only provider in the legal operations management market to offer a comprehensive VAT solution for the EU. DataCert solutions are already ...
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IPC Announces November Conferences
PCB007 (press release)
His presentation will cover all the latest information on the eu's ongoing revision, or recast, of the rohs Directive, including changes to scope of covered ...
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A leading Czech pro-life group has urged Irish voters to reject ...
By webmaster
It has been revealed that even without the Lisbon Treaty, on the order of 80 per cent of British laws are no longer made by her native Parliament, but are put in place by rubber stamping EU directives and regulations. ...
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Britannia Radio
By Britannia Radio
1000 New EU Laws a Year. The European Scrutiny Committee checks EU Directives on behalf of the British House of Commons. It scrutinises over 1000 documents a year. Each document is a separate EU Directive. ... It will arm delegates with vital knowledge on how we influence European policy and implement directives and regulations effectively. Despite over 50% of the regulation which affects our frontline services originating in Brussels, ... Discover how EU legislation and ...
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Financial Regulatory Forum » Blog Archive » HIGHLIGHTS-UK ...
By Reuters Staff
LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Services Authority is holding a one-day conference on asset management to discuss a draft European Union law to regulate managers of hedge funds, private equity and other alternative investments. ... “A good directive would offer sufficient and appropriate support to investor protection and financial stability proportionate to proven need.” “We are leading the cause for more effective regulation and supevision. ...
Financial Regulatory Forum - http://blogs.reuters.com/financial-regulatory-forum/
EU Court rules staff who are sick on holiday can reallocate annual ...
By admin
The decision, a new interpretation of the working time directive, follows the ECJ's ruling on the Stringer case earlier this year that holiday continues to accrue during sick leave. Stringer found that a worker could carry ... “Many employers take the view that if an employee is sick while on holiday, that is just bad luck for them,” said Owen Warnock, partner at law firm Eversheds. “The European court has now said that this is not allowed by the working time directive . ...
The Gov Monitor - http://thegovmonitor.com/
Thinking Made Easy: E-Commerce
By Marivic Butod
Towards the end of 2000, and in response to European Union legislation, the UK passed the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations. These regulations require all UK businesses that enter contracts with consumers `at a distance' ( clearly this .... The Personal Data Protection Act regulates the disclosure of personal data to countries outside of the European Union. A law on e-commerce that implements the EU E-commerce Directive has been passed by the Parliament. ...
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Irish women targeted in new EU reform treaty campaign
Deutsche Welle
Ireland goes to the polls on Oct. 2 to vote again on the EU's reform treaty, after rejecting it last year. As women were one of the largest groups opposed ...
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FACTBOX: Challenges facing EU's Barroso
Reuters
LISBON REFORM TREATY * Barroso will oversee efforts to implement the EU's Lisbon treaty, intended to streamline decision making and increase the EU's global ...
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Ukraine diplomats take risk on EU application
EUobserver.com
Article 49 of the EU treaty says that "any European state ...may apply to become a member of the union," while the preamble is to make no mention of Ukraine ...
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Options for architectural reform for EU development cooperation ...
By martinbehrens
A recent ODI Background Note looks at key issues of EU development cooperation which will be decided upon in the remaining months of 2009. The paper assumes that the Lisbon Treaty will come into force on January 1 2010 after a positive ...
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Britannia Radio
By Britannia Radio
Irish bond sale strong, eyes on bad bank, EU vote. Forbes Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has warned borrowing costs would rise if Ireland rejected the European Union's Lisbon reform treaty on Oct. 2 in the . ...
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Guest Post: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard & the City's hard EU choices ...
By Vladimir
Both the underlying legislation and the supervisory structures need reform, which most probably will entail further EU integration. Work in this area has already started when the European Commission in the spring proposed a new EU ... With the Lisbon Treaty in force, the road for leaving the EU has thus been cleared. The new Treaty that Evans-Pritchard describes as an “unwelcome revolution… being forced upon us” incidentally introduces an explicit right for Member States ...
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EU Referendum: More news from up north
By Helen
It is, however, easy enough to work out what she is saying: the EU can function quite well without that treaty (there seems to be some worry about it being ratified in the few countries left and that does not include Britain) and can, should it wish to do so, ... Open Europe's blog has a little more on the subject. One wonders how they can square these blatant pronouncements with their own notion that all will be well if the EU simply followed their ideas on reform. ...
EU Referendum - http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/
The most important election in Europe, but the voters are not ...
By Daniel Hannan
“Flushed with his success, Mr Barroso will this weekend travel to Ireland to campaign for a Yes vote in Ireland's looming second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, which takes place in a fortnight's time.” How often does it have to be said that ... Mr. Cameron's strategy, which is clearly supported by you, is to try to reform the EU from within. For this reason you are burning the midnight candle reviewing legislation over which you have a minority position of influence. ...
News - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/
Irish women targeted in new EU reform treaty campaign
In last year's referendum, 56 percent of women voted "no" to the Lisbon Treaty, a worrying statistic for those campaigning for a "yes" vote this time around ...