Thursday 1 October 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

EU court backs HSBC over UK stamp duty challenge
Reuters
The court said the duty contravened the EU's capital duty directive in a ruling that British firms that have been involved in a cross-border takeover will ...
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London Bankers Balk at EU Regulation as Lea Invokes Secession
Bloomberg
The proposed EU directive on hedge funds and private equity “is not a French plot against the city,” Patrice Berge- Vincent, head of asset management at ...
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Zmanda Launches the Industry's Most Advanced Cloud Backup Solution ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
... order to ensure optimal disaster recovery protection while remaining compliant with local data retention laws, such as the EU Data Protection Directive. ...
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European Parliament targets online fake medicines
EurActiv
The EU executive's decision not to legislate against online pharmacies is a major flaw in its proposal to fight counterfeit medicines, according to leading ...
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Court upholds retirement age law
FT Adviser
Making the ruling, Lord Justice Blake said that the current rules did not infringe directives laid down by the European Union. He also said that there was a ...
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The Lisbon Treaty: Final aspects of amendments to TFEU | gaelick
By click here
A regulation is an EU law which has general application. It shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. A directive is an EU law which is binding, as to the result to be achieved, upon each Member ...
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Washminster: Enforcing Rights
By J David Morgan
Rights arising from EU law may be enforceable IN THE NATIONAL COURTS if they meet certain criteria. The first criteria, which apply whether the right arose in a Treaty Article; a Regulation or a Directive has become known, ...
Washminster - http://washminster.blogspot.com/
Pat Buckley - European Life Network: Slovak MEP Anna Záborská ...
By Patrick Buckley
Can the Irish government guarantee that the EU will not attack the Irish Constiution or the guarantees when the upcoming Council directive on non discrimination needs to be implemented in national law? Can the Irish Government guarantee ...
Pat Buckley - European Life Network - http://europeanlifenetwork.blogspot.com/
60 Boring technical changes in Lisbon and how they'll help the EU ...
By Owen Rooney
The Union respects and does not prejudice the status under national law of churches and religious associations or communities in the Member States. 2. The Union equally respects the status under national law of philosophical and non- confessional organisations. ..... The ordinary legislative procedure shall consist in the joint adoption by the European Parliament and the Council of a regulation, directive or decision on a proposal from the Commission. ...
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EU reform treaty faces referendum test in Ireland
eTaiwan News
But the government is pleading with its people that a second "no" to the EU's Lisbon Treaty would inflict more damage on Ireland itself. ...
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Do Sun editorials still matter?
Telegraph.co.uk
... were different and the insertion of an Irish protocol into the EU treaties may have to wait for a new EU reform treaty to be drawn up and ratified. ...
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Genscher calls on Czechs to approve EU reform Lisbon Treaty
Prague Daily Monitor
Prague, Sept 30 (CTK) - The EU reform Lisbon treaty is necessary for the European Union's proper functioning and everyone in the Czech Republic should ...
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boycott the Treaty of Lisbon: Ireland 'can only gain by rejecting ...
By Β.Bimbo( PR Profil )
Ireland has nothing to lose and everything to gain by voting no to the Lisbon Treaty, Libertas leader Declan Ganley said today. The millionaire businessman said the EU reform package had not changed at all since the Irish people ...
boycott the Treaty of Lisbon - http://neakaboul.blogspot.com/
Remember God - Irish PM warns voters Lisbon poll is final
Ireland's prime minister warned today that this week's plebiscite on the European Union's reform treaty, the second in as many years, would be final and European integration would be at risk if they rejected it again. ...
Remember God - Supreme Master... - http://www.remembergod.org/en/vegetarian-news.aspx
Slugger O'Toole
By Mick Fealty
It provides a platform for reform of the EU present and future. Furthermore, the economic circumstances in which we now find ourselves make the approval of the Lisbon Treaty the sensible choice for our future. It just makes plain common ...
Slugger O'Toole - http://www.sluggerotoole.com/index.php
The Connolly Column: Daughter of Crotty urges "No" vote
By Craig
The People's Movement, the Irish Fishermen's Organisation and Farmers for a No Vote held a joint press conference in the shadow of the Dáil