Friday 27 November 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

Gov net disconnections could breach EU law
Register
Edwards said that the Bill itself may break European law. The E-Commerce Directive, which was made UK law as the E-Commerce Regulations, give network ...
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AFP
Half of Euro online travel purchases legally unsafe: EU
AFP
While the EU Package Travel Directive introduced rules covering what tour operators could promise in glossy brochures, Brussels now wants to find ways to ...
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Catholic News Agency
EU commission strikes down British religious freedom exemptions from anti ...
Catholic News Agency
The National Secular Society had argued that the exemptions went further than was permitted under an EU directive and created “illegal discrimination ...
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ABI criticises EU fund plan
CITY A.M.
Jean-Paul Gauzes MEP, the rapporteur in the European Parliament for the EU's proposed Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive, is suggesting ...
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NSS forces Government to remove religious opt out from discrimination law
National Secular Society
The NSS complained to the European Commission in 2004 that the Government had gone further than the EU Employment Directive permitted in granting exemptions ...
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Swedish EU Presidency - Stockholm Programme and work to combat human ...
ISRIA
During 2008 and 2009 a number of directives on asylum have been presented, for example on reception conditions for refugees, EU cooperation on quota ...
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EU Telecom Overhaul One Step Closer
CircleID
The telecoms reform enters into force next month and grants Member States until May 2011 to incorporate regulations into their national telecoms laws...
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New EU laws aim to cut prices, guarantee net freedom | Telecom Asia
By fmmonteverde 
Consumers put at the heart of regulation... “The EU telecoms reform will bring more competition on Europe's telecoms markets and put citizens in the center stage in telecoms regulation," said telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding. ... The telecoms directive also includes rules to harmonize radio spectrum management across the EU, especially in regard to the switchover from analog to digital TV by 2012. The package includes a provision for “internet freedom,” representing ...
Telecom Asia RSS - http://www.telecomasia.net/tarss
NSS forces Government to remove religious opt out from ...
The NSS complained to the European Commission in 2004 that the Government had gone further than the EU Employment Directive permitted in granting exemptions to religious bodies to discriminate against gay employees in the Employment Equality ... The Bill Committee which was drafting the Equality Bill — which is slated to replace the Employment Regulations — was only given details of theEuropean Commission's findings after the NSS insisted it be furnished with them. ...
NSS News - http://www.secularism.org.uk/
Joining The Dots Between Security And Compliance | Business ...
By Nigel Stanley 
EU Regulations. Two European directives were issued by the European Union Council of Ministers aiming to create more transparency and public confidence in the operations of companies operating within the EU. The 8th EU Company Law ...
Business Computing World - http://www.businesscomputingworld.co.uk/
DENVERSTROPE: EU Declares War on the City
By denverthen 
“If the proposed EU directive on hedge funds goes through, London will go the way of Bruges, Venice and Amsterdam: a once dominant financial entrepôt sidelined by more virile cities.” If you still think I was exaggerating, ... The European Union is examining new rules for the funds and others. This week, Jean-Paul Gauzes, a French member of the European parliament appointed to broker a deal on the law, will issue a report outlining the direction the EU should take. ...
DENVERSTROPE - http://denverthen.blogspot.com/
Germany Food Laws And Regulations Regulations Laws &
Food for thought nosemonkey news from until eu regulations and eu directives were adopted in germany may be regulations but not all regulations are laws ...

Parliament to get extra observer MEPs from 12 countries
EUobserver.com
When the reform treaty was drafted, EU governments decided to expand the legislature from 736 to 751 members, so as to reflect the enlarged union. ...
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JURIST - Hotline: Somalia's ratification of children's rights ...
By Andrew Wood
It has been the experience of UNICEF that the process of legal reform is the biggest hurdle for the realization of children's rights, and while most countries have ratified the CRC, many states parties to the treaty still are not fully ...
JURIST - Hotline - http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/index.php
Health Care Financing Reform: (71) Are Filibusters Constitutional?
By Professor Will Huhn
The Constitution provides that two-thirds of the Senate is necessary to ratify a treaty. (Art. II, sec. 2, cl. 2). The Constitution states that two-thirds of each House of Congress is necessary to propose amendments to the Constitution, ...
Akron Law Café - http://www.ohioverticals.com/blogs/akron_law_cafe/
Eastern Europe Watch: On Ukraine.
By Eastern Europe Watch
... has been hit so hard when compared to states like Aleksander Lukashenko's Belarus which rejected the involvement of the IMF in dictating 'reform' in its economy and has not been hit by the collapse seen in its neighbour to the south. ... Impatience with Ukraine across the EU is growing, with France and Germany, for example, delaying its accession to the EU's energy community treaty. The EU hardly lacks one form of 'strategic vision'. It knows what it wants from ...
Eastern Europe Watch - http://easterneuropewatch.blogspot.com/