Tuesday 15 September 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

BBC News
EU sick leave ruling criticised
BBC News
"If this ruling is to become law, employers should be able to ask for a medical certificate." Article Seven of the EU's Working Time Directive guarantees ...
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BBC News
Five consumer laws you really ought to know
BBC News
Where it applies: The regulations are European law, so apply across the whole of the EU. You buy an iconic white MP3 player from an online retailer as a ...
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Worker rights 'advanced' by Lisbon
Irish Times
But he maintained the cases were “primarily technical” and had resulted from member states failing to properly transpose EU directives into national law, ...
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EU Commission sets up piracy monitor but rejects copyright reform
Out-Law.com
"Within the EU there are already a number of legal instruments in place, such as the Enforcement Directive, but in order to make them more effective the EU ...
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EU Court Shoots Down Spring Bird Hunting
Courthouse News Service
By SONYA ANGELICA DIEHN (CN) - The Court of Justice ruled that Republic of Malta violated European law by allowing spring hunting of quails and turtle doves ...
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Waste Industry Update August 2009
Linex Legal (registration)
In addition to re-enacting, repealing and/or revising existing EU waste law (the current Waste Framework Directive (2006/12/EC), the Hazardous Waste ...
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Limbach Laboratory Network Group Selects Bruker´s MALDI Biotyper ...
Reuters
The MALDI Biotyper is available in a research-use-only version, as well as in an IVD-CE version according to EU directive EC/98/79 in certain European ...
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Pat Buckley - European Life Network: Misleading article on effects ...
By Patrick Buckley
The article, quotes Mr Buzek as saying “it is not possible for the
EU to change any member – state's abortion law […]”, yet this is precisely what happened when Slovakia attempted to protect the conscience rights of medical ... Competence creep can happen in a number of ways - through EU directives such as those on equality and non-discrimination, the free movement of services and in other critical areas such as, sex education and protection of minors, to name a few. ...
Pat Buckley - European Life Network - http://europeanlifenetwork.blogspot.com/
Britannia Radio
By Britannia Radio

Basel II is the second of the Basel Accords, which are recommendations on banking
laws and regulations issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. The purpose of Basel II, which was initially published in June 2004, .... A European Union directive passed in 2001 and adopted as a new accounting standard in the UK in 2006 dictates that banks have to value their assets on a daily basis. To do this they must base their calculations on the market value of each asset ...

Britannia Radio - http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/

Walesa to campaign in Ireland for EU treaty
eTaiwan News
AP Former Polish president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa plans to campaign in Ireland in support of the European Union's stalled reform treaty. ...
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EU parliament set to return Barroso to top job
Space Daily
... but it appears he could even secure enough votes to ensure his post cannot be questioned in future if the new Lisbon reform treaty enters force, ...
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Respekt: Czechs also to blame for EU's failing soft approach to Cuba
Prague Daily Monitor
... and now blocks the Lisbon treaty's ratification, Pilatova writes, alluding to Czech President Vaclav Klaus's reluctancy to sign the EU reform treaty. ...
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Treaty rejection is our ejection
Irish Independent
... by various opponents of the Lisbon Treaty, the most outrageous is the claim that if Ireland again rejects this reform treaty, our standing within the EU ...
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Czech Happenings
Czech election postponement may speed up EU commissioner choice
Czech Happenings
... if it managed to select a new EU commissioner as soon as possible and outlined how the ratification of the EU reform Lisbon treaty would be completed. ...
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Slugger O'Toole
By Pete Baker
Fianna Fail and their supporters in Labour and Fine Gael are also using the economic crisis to scare people into supporting the treaty. We are told that if we vote no we will lose investment, jobs, and support from our EU counterparts. ..... Ed] “23% say they will vote against the EU reform measures, while 15% are still undecided ahead of the ballot on October 2” - leaving 62% saying 'Yes'. But RTÉ gives different figures. The results show support for Lisbon holding up, ...
Slugger O'Toole - http://www.sluggerotoole.com/index.php
Gates of Vienna: Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/14/2009
By Baron Bodissey
EU: A Pre-Crisis Treaty for a Post-Crisis World. France: Value of Houses Down, Not Since World War Two. Reps. Michael Burgess, M.D., and Michele Bachmann: Real Reform Doesn't Demand Government Invention. The False Dawn ...
Gates of Vienna - http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/
The Irish Economy: The Lisbon Treaty
By Peter Collins
So in many ways the Reform Treaty is designed to act as a statement of what has already been achieved in the EU whilst providing the framework for effective progress in the future. Stated in this fashion the proposed Treaty might appear ...
The Irish Economy - http://theirisheconomy.blogspot.com/
Czech election postponement may speed up EU commissioner choice ...
By Garry Benfold
Fuele said he is convinced that the Czech Republic could still obtain a significant post in the EC if it managed to select a new EU commissioner as soon as possible and outlined how the ratification of the EU reform Lisbon treaty would ...
Get 2 Vote - http://get2vote.wordpress.com/