Thursday, 26 November 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

UK equality laws 'fall short of EU requirements', says Commission
Register
"This directive was agreed unanimously by all EU countries in 2002, but to be effective it needs to be fully and correctly transposed into national law," ...
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Airline failures push EU to consider extending passenger cover
Flightglobal
Such "dynamic" package arrangements, says the Commission, frequently do not fall within the European Union's protection laws, but a majority of travellers ...
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Open Europe : persoverzicht
Politics
Jean-Paul Gauzes - the rapporteur in the European Parliament for the eu's proposed AIFM Directive - has written a letter to Members of the European ...
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LGA warns of fines 'bombshell' under EU billing rules
LocalGov
Separate LGA documents also warn Whitehall's implementation of the EU agency workers Directive – referenced in last week's Queen's Speech – could increase ...
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Kroes may replace Reding, as Europe's new telecoms regime becomes law
Rethink Wireless
The EU telecom reform package consists of five separate directives - the Framework Directive, the Access Directive, the Authorization Directive, ...
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UK "Fully Entitled" to Ignore EU Request to Quash Religious Protections: Legal ...
Lifesite
... a coalition of Christian groups, that said the eu's directive on discrimination had been correctly implemented in the British Employment Regulations. ...
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What a waste
European Voice
The European directive on recycling electronic waste was a landmark for EU environmental law, but remains little loved in member states. ...
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EU passes new telco laws | Telecoms Europe
By fmmonteverde
Consumers put at the heart of regulation. ... The telecoms directive also includes rules to harmonize radio spectrum management across the EU, especially in regard to the switchover from analogue to digital TV by 2012. ...
Telecom News on 4G, Wimax, Carrier... - http://www.telecomseurope.net/terss
British courts and the British government cannot be forced to ...
By webmaster
... 2004 ruling by the British High Court, in a case between a number of British unions and a coalition of Christian groups, that said the EU's directive on discrimination had been correctly implemented in the British Employment Regulations . ... Addison confirmed, however, what many pro-life advocates had warned about the effect of ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, that no matter what laws are passed by individual member states of the EU, or what their own courts decide, ...
eChurchWebsites Christian Blog... - http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/
Britannia Radio
By Britannia Radio
Last week (20 November), EU member states adopted new rules on the marketing and safety of cosmetics by grouping the existing 55 directives into a single regulation (pdf download). One of the key elements of the new streamlined laws is ...
Britannia Radio - http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/
Greece's Unwelcoming Shores | Mostly Water
By blackandred
Greece's treatment of migrants and refugees, including these children, violates binding European Union directives for asylum seekers. Despite the shocked reactions in Brussels when we described what we had found, our call to the European ... In late 2008, in a meeting with EU member state delegations, we urged them to stop sending migrants and asylum seekers back to Greece under the so-called Dublin II regulations, because of the ill-treatment, detention and unfair asylum ...
Mostly Water - "Canadian" and... - http://mostlywater.org/
EU President wants to finance the Europe with CO2 taxes. | Zooot ...
By Constantine
The following year it published plans for an EU-wide "carbon tax". Ever since, saving the planet has risen steadily higher on the EU's agenda, as the perfect idealistic cause to justify more new laws – from the landfill directive that ...
Zooot Europe - http://www.zooot.eu/