Wednesday 7 October 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times - Oct 7
Reuters
In a letter to the House of Lords EU Select Committee, the Church of England has raised "serious concerns" over European Union plans to regulate hedge funds ...
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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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Amendment 138: Debunking the Council's arguments
Newropeans Magazine
The European Parliament's second reading version of the Telecoms Package has yet to be formally rejected by the Council of the European Union, ...
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The Lawyer
Competition class actions suffer setback as EU shuns directive
The Lawyer
An EU draft directive on competition law that could have brought an influx of US-style class actions to the UK has been withdrawn. ...
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The CDM: Kyoto's Carbon Offsetting Scheme
International Rivers
A European Union law called the Linking Directive regulates the use of CDM credits within the EU's internal carbon trading system. The directive states that ...
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Waste Industry Update - September 2009
Linex Legal (registration)
The full opinion of the Advocate General in the case C-172/08, can be found at: www.curia.europa.eu ^ Back to top European Court examines the precision of ...
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FITCH EXPECTS GREATER CONTINUITY FOR DUTCH REGULATED COVERED BONDS
Forbes
22.4 of the European Directive on Undertakings for Collective Investment Transferable Securities (UCITS), and those that fall under the scope of both the ...
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Project Syndicate
European financial institutions and markets cross national borders on an unprecedented scale, but national authorities still dominate regulation. Addressing the European problem may help us find solutions to the global challenge. The EU's ... However, the EU Treaty recognizes public policy exceptions. Moreover, several EU directives acknowledge the interest of the country where financial transactions (such as life insurance contracts) are carried out by allocating to it ...
Project Syndicate - http://www.project-syndicate.org/
open...: Postcodes: Royal Fail
By glyn moody
It is noteworthy that the number of database “entries” dropped just as most of the EU-15 had implemented the Directive into national laws in 2001. In 2001, there were 4085 EU-based “entries” while in 2004 there were only 3095. ...
open... - http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/
The Lisbon Treaty
By baldy
Without a democratic mandate, the EU has no value even as a free trade area, in order to function properly it needs to be totally restructured else, it will just fade away as individual countries start to treat every directive as totally optional as the French ... Bad Laws in must be repealed by Parliament before the Courts can ignore them, it therefore follows that Parliament would have to repeal all EU Laws and Treaties in order for Brussels to cease to hold any sway. ...
baldysblog.co.uk - http://baldysblog.co.uk/

BBC News
EU-Czech talks on reform treaty
BBC News
The Czech Republic is one of two EU members not to have ratified the treaty so far. Poland is expected to complete ratification in a few days' time. ...
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Conservatives head for cul-de-sac with Kaminski
guardian.co.uk
Hardly surprising given the praise of his former boss, Polish President Lech Kaczynski, for the original reform treaty since "basically Poland got what it ...
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Helping the news: EU-Czech talks on reform treaty | LINGsCARS.com ...
By Ling
Car Leasing news in Chinglish: Czech PM Jan Fischer is to meet top EU officials to discuss country's progress towards ratification of Lisbon treaty. You give.
LINGsCARS.com - Blog - http://www.lingscars.com/blog/
Tories have gone FAR RIGHT in Europe. But who's noticed? « Tony Blair
By keeptonyblairforpm
I am writing this in the Jean Monnet House outside Paris, where the European parliament's bureau is holding an away-day to plan how to work with national parliaments, which, under the treaty, get a direct and decisive say in EU law-making. ... The ECR group has diminished his otherwise able and hard-working MEPs' ability to deliver Cameron's agenda on EU reform, climate change and open markets: its 60-odd members would have given real added value to the 265 in the EPP and ...
Tony Blair - http://keeptonyblairforpm.wordpress.com/
Ireland Signed Lisbon treaty - WTF?!
By Jung
LONDON — Ireland's vote to ratify the European Union's Lisbon Treaty has finally cleared the way for the creation of a powerful new president, ... The Lisbon Treaty, which aims to streamline decision-making and reform the bloc's ramshackle structures, lays down a two-and-a-half-year term for a full-time president of the European Council, the body that represents member nations. The treaty, if finally ratified by the Poles and Czechs, also mandates a single new foreign ...
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COURAGE IN AMERICA: THE GREAT IRISH SURRENDER -- BY NILES GARDINER ...
By Judy Chaffee
After rejecting the Treaty in June last year, Ireland was forced to vote again. Lisbon, also known as the European Union Reform Treaty, is a rehash of the old European Constitution, which was emphatically ...
COURAGE IN AMERICA - http://www.courageinamerica.com/
EU-Czech talks on reform treaty | World News
Czech PM Jan Fischer is to meet top EU officials to discuss the country's progress towards ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.
World News - http://miceay.com/world/