Thursday 8 October 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

EU regulator says hedge fund plans needs rethink
Reuters
By Huw Jones BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - A draft European Union law to regulate hedge funds and private equity managers is unworkable and needs a rethink ...
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EU Takes Austria To Court Over VAT On Car Sales
Wall Street Journal
VAT rules have been harmonized across all European Union countries and the commission is responsible for monitoring its proper functioning.
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EU closes infringement proceedings over gender discrimination
Times of Malta
Vladimír Špidla, EU Commissioner for Equal Opportunities, explained that the directive was crucial to tackling gender discrimination, an important goal of ...
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Why the eu's reputation hangs by a carbon thread
ENDS Europe (subscription)
But it exposes the EU ETS, once more, to robust criticism. Never in the history of EU law-making has one piece of legislation been so open to attack or ...
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Hedge Hub » Blog Archive » AIMA claims “broad consensus” on EU ...
By Laurence Fletcher
Hedge fund industry body AIMA said today “there is now a broad consensus among European policymakers that the directive does need a lot of work and that there will be significant revisions”. The group has been campaigning vigorously against the draft law, which proposes controls on leverage, which service providers can be used and where funds can be sold, and says it should instead focus on three areas — registration and authorisation, reporting of systemically-relevant ...
Hedge Hub - http://blogs.reuters.com/hedgehub/
Britannia Radio
By Britannia Radio
Europe and US prepare for smart grid explosion SmartMeters. The new EU energy package became law on September 3. Two Directives and three Regulations now require EU Member States to “ensure the implementation of . ...
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CIM Matters – Parity » Parity Solution Accelerator
By Nigel Price
Although there is currently no mandated minimum level of requirement, it is widely accepted that the minimum level required to comply with UK law is Priority 1 of the WCAG, at the very least, this means the removal of some of the most ... Key solution Requirements Drawing upon the accessibility requirements of public sector organisations, and taking into account UK & EU directives, combined with Parity's experience of delivering successful enterprise web solutions, ...
CIM Matters - Parity - http://www.parityblogs.net/CIMMatters/
Intellectual Property Watch » Blog Archive » Iceland Panel: French ...
By Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen
Last week, the European Council proposed a revision of the EU telecommunications directive that Erik Josefsson, adviser on internet policies with the Greens/EFA group, said was exactly the same as the text that the European Parliament rejected ... The sticking point is whether national agencies like HADOPI should be allowed under European law to take action on suspected illegal file-sharing before it has been tried in a court, Josefsson told Intellectual Property Watch. ...
Intellectual Property Watch - http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/
THE REGULATION OF CROSS-BORDER FINANCIAL SERVICES IN THE EU ...
By Greg
An appraisal of EU directives adopted in the field of financial services and markets exposes the progressive development of a highly coordinated legal and regulatory framework calculated to permit the creation of a pan-European securities ... the requirements to which individual Member States must conform are premised on the following: (a) harmonizing the laws that are essential to prudential supervision and conduct regulation that could affect competition or result in ...
The Columbia Journal of European Law - http://www.cjel.net/

Czechs Offer Mixed Signals on EU Reform Treaty
New York Times
... Prime Minister Jan Fischer of the Czech Republic said Wednesday that he expected his country to ratify the European Union's reform treaty this year, ...
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Expenses scandal puts focus on Irish govt stability
Reuters
All Green motions needs to be passed by over two thirds of members and last year only 63 percent voted to support the EU's reform treaty, meaning that the ...
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Scunnert Nation: Czech court spikes secondary EU treaty challenge
By scunnert
Prague, October 6 (MIA) - The Czech Republic's Constitutional Court said Tuesday it threw out a challenge against a law related to the European Union's reform treaty, lifting a secondary hurdle to the pact's Czech ratification. ...
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Fischer: Court opens path to Lisbon Treaty approval | Prague Monitor
The amendment introduces a special mandate for MPs and is connected with the Lisbon treaty to reform the EU functioning. Fischer will discuss the future of the Lisbon treaty with European Commission President Jose Barroso in Brussels on ...
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EU Puts Pressure on Czech Republic Over Lisbon Treaty Signing
By RSSfeed@studentnewsdaily.com
The Constitution could make reform even more difficult by giving the European Parliament new powers over spending. Fraud: The new treaty does nothing to sort out the EU's chronic problems with fraud. According to its own figures, the EU ...
StudentNewsDaily.com - http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/
The Lisbon Treaty
By baldy
There are only three choices, we stay inside the EU as it is whilst it slowly and acrimoniously disintegrates, leave it now or, if there is a clear will to reform the EU, make it democratically accountable and reduce its scope to trade ...
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Derek Bennett The Euro Sceptic: JENS SPEAKS OUT
By Derek Bennett EU-Sceptic
I promised a bottle of first-class wine to anyone who could give me just one example of a European law that could be passed by the EU Constitution but not by the Lisbon Treaty. To include non-drinkers in my .... We must reform the rules on transparency in the EU so that all legislative meetings and documents are open and transparent unless reasoned derogations are agreed;. 3. We cannot continue leaving the monopoly of legislative initiative with non-elected Commissioners. ...
Derek Bennett The Euro Sceptic - http://derekbennetteu-sceptic.blogspot.com/
Czechs Offer Mixed Signals on E.U. Reform Treaty NYTimescom
Reassurances from the Czech prime minister that his country would ratify the Lisbon Treaty failed to dispel fears that political infighting could delay the ...
Irish voters overwhelmingly back EU reform treaty | International ...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish voters overwhelmingly endorsed the European Union's Lisbon reform treaty, results showed on Saturday, putting the bloc's ambitions ...