Sunday 29 November 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

EU commission demands Britian to abolish laws protecting religious ...
By TB
In a "reasoned opinion," the EU's equal opportunities commissioner, Vladimir Spidla, told the government on Friday that it has failed correctly to implement an EU Council Directive on discrimination. ... Under regulation 18 of the Sexual Orientation Regulations of the Equality Act (SORs), registered religious charities, such as Catholic adoption agencies, are allowed to act in accordance with the constitutional documents that specify their religious purpose. ...
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Anglican Mainstream » Blog Archive » EU: Religious employers have ...
By Quentin
They suggest that UK law is not in keeping with an EU employment directive issued in 2000. But in 2004 the High Court ruled that the directive has been properly implemented in the UK and the religious liberty safeguard is legally valid. ... Neil Addison, a lawyer and commentator on religious liberty issues, said the European Commission seems “to be ignoring the fact that the question of whether the exemptions in the Regulations complied with the Directive was carefully ...
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GreenCitizen: FROM EUROPEAN VOICE
By Toby Miller
The European directive on recycling electronic waste was a landmark for EU environmental law, but remains little loved in member states. In 2008 the Commission found that only a third of electronic waste was being treated in line ... For instance, the European engineering industries association, Orgalime, is worried that the Commission's current proposal for revising RoHS creates unnecessary bureaucracy and overlaps with other laws, notably the REACH chemicals regulation. ...
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Main points of the EU's Lisbon Treaty
Space Daily
The new "Reform Treaty" will complement and amend its predecessors, not replace them. The treaty makes binding the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, ...
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Climate change deniers and Fascist Nick Griffin, Baroness Ashton ...
By burningdinosaur
The high representative for foreign affairs and security policy will have enhanced powers under the bloc's Lisbon reform treaty and head an external action service designed to give the EU more influence on the world stage. ...
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Cyndi's Perspective: What Will The Lisbon Treaty Mean For Us?
By Cyndi's Perspective
Note: It took eight years of intricate negotiations for the EU's new reform treaty to see the light of day, since EU leaders first debated its proposed reforms at the 14-15 December Laeken summit in 2001. ...
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