Wednesday 9 December 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.


EU rolls out out astroturf guide for consumer laws
Register
By OUT-LAW.COM • Get more from this author Social networking sites and blogs can be governed by the European Union's Unfair Commercial Practices Directive...
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Daily Mail
Spain warns it will rush through strict new rules on financial regulation ...
Daily Mail
By Mail Foreign Service Spain will seek quick approval of laws governing financialregulation during its six-month presidency of the European Union next ...
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Browser Settings Satisfy New EU Cookie Law, says IAB
ClickZ News
The directive itself will be implemented by EU member states through local laws. However, according Struan Robertson, a technology lawyer and legal director ...
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Funds regulation 'to ward off recession risks'
EurActiv
A draft law to regulate hedge funds and private equity firms could reduce EU GDP but will also provide a buffer against another recession, argue the authors ...
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EU issues guidance on consumer protection laws
Legalbrief (subscription)
Social networking sites and blogs can be governed by the eu's Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, according to new guidance published by the European ...
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Solar PV Could Be Standard in New European Buildings by 2020
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
They said that when transposing the directive in the national lawEU member states should focus on developing the potential of on-site renewable energy ...
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Asset managers and insurers win FSA pay code reprieve
Financial Times
The European Union is also working on pay rules for banks, insurance companies and alternative investment fund managers. Separately, Alistair Darling ...
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Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
EU Council conclusions on South Caucasus
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Council of European Union issued conclusions on South Caucasus after 2985 th foreign affairs council meeting in Brussels December 8, 2009. ...
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Johnson makes statement on Justice and Home Affairs Post-Council Statement
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
The following issues were discussed at the Council: The Council, in Mixed Committee with non-EUSchengen states, received an update from the presidency on ...
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Regulating new media requires careful plan
Taipei Times
The EU's regulations for managing media convergence may be a point of reference. The EU's Audio-Visual Media Services Directive defines media content in ...
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Bloggers4UKIP: EU QUACKS POSE THREAT TO UK HERBAL MEDICINE INDUSTRY
By Derek Bennett EU-Sceptic 
The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health charity claims without regulation an EU directivebanning herbalists and practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine from using manufactured or pre-prepared herbal medicines could abandon herbal medicine patients to ... “This whole issue is deeply concerning and UKIP has warned of this for the past seven years. We should make our own laws and policies in Westminster,” he added. Posted by Derek Bennett EU-Sceptic at 12:00 ...
Bloggers4UKIP - http://bloggers4ukip.blogspot.com/
Investment trusts threatened by Euro legislation
By The Investor 
The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, currently still in draft form, proposes an overarching set of regulatory provisions for all European investment managers not covered by the UCITS regulations... Will the AIFMD become law ? According to Bingham: The EU Commission originally intended that the AIFM Directive would be implemented by the end of 2011. The AIFMDirective is now before the European parliament and there is a general consensus that a directive ...
Monevator - http://monevator.com/
Wirtschaftliche Freiheit » Blog Archiv » Should the European Union ...
By Roland Vaubel 
In the Explanatory Memorandum attached to the proposal, the Commission claims that the EuropeanBanking Authority “can, in line with the Court's case law, be established on the basis of Article 95 of the Treaty”, i.e., ... Other examples are the EU labour market regulations and the Droit de SuiteDirective regulating the European arts market. Both have been pushed by French governments, and both have been directed against the UK and other more liberal countries. ...
Wirtschaftliche Freiheit - http://wirtschaftlichefreiheit.de/wordpress/
The European Citizen: Meanwhile, in Brussels, Climate Change ...
By Eurocentric 
Meanwhile, in that other famed *ahem* hotbed of politics, the Council of the European Union (also known as the Council of Ministers - think of it as the Senate of the EU system), the recasting of building regulations was up for consideration ... Since the law would be a directive, member states have can choose exactly how to transpose it into their national legal systems (directives require member states to pass national laws giving effect to them, rather than the EU just ...
The European Citizen - http://theeuropeancitizen.blogspot.com/
Treacherous Truths: The Run-Around
By TRex 
We appealed their decision numerous times, even pointing out that EU Directive 2004/38/BC provides for the free movement of EU citizens and their family members throughout the EU and EEA and thus Latvian |Immigration law 35.13 must be ...
Treacherous Truths - http://treacheroustruths.blogspot.com/
Britannia Radio
WITHDRAWAL FROM LISBON TREATY. TO LATE NOW BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS. December.EUCurrent Regulations Directives Laws & comments ...
Commission Directive 2009/150/EC of 27 November 2009 amending ...
amending Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council to include flocoumafen ....2010 at the latest, the lawsregulations and administrative ... its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union . ...
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1150/2009 of 10 November 2009 ...
... regard to Council Directive 89/665/EEC of. 21 December 1989 on the coordination of the laws,regulations .... measures transposing Directive 2007/ 66/EC of the European ... 92/13/EEC in the Official Journal of the European Union, the ...
Find and Track New EU Legislation, DirectivesRegulations ...
European Law Monitor - News and information on the EU, policies, .... Draft general budget of theEuropean Union for the financial year 2010 as modified by ...
CEMA - European Agricultural Machinery
directive is a legislative act of the European Union which requires member states to achieve a particular ... Regulations are de facto National law.

EU decision on Iceland bid delayed until March
Reuters
14, and the third reason is that Germany has not sorted out its constitution in relation to the EU's Lisbon reform treaty." EU Leaders can only make their ...
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Almunia Says EU Officials Ready to Assist Greece in Budget Plan
Bloomberg
... out the comprehensive consolidation and reform program, in the framework of the treaty provisions for euro-area member states,” said Joaquin Almunia, ...
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EU machinery slows down Iceland accession bid
EurActiv
... until 14 December, and the third reason is that Germany has not sorted out its constitution in relation to the EU's Lisbon reform treaty," he added. ...
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Trend News Agency
New EU structure will give Azerbaijan an easier understanding on how Europe ...
Trend News Agency
With the EU Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force on December 1st, the new architecture created will bring more stability in the EU counterparts ...
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Is Barroso dodging the climate fight?
EurActiv
... key of the reform process of the EU to [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel and later [French President Nicolas] Sarkozy, so now we have the Lisbon Treaty, ...
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Irish referendum lessons
EUobserver.com
But EU expert Prof. Brigid Laffan, principal of University College Dublin and chair of Ireland for Europe, a pro-treaty group that campaigned strongly in ...
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Political turmoil unsettles recovery
Financial Times
Although Mr Klaus eventually buckled and signed the Lisbon treaty, the ODS is in a civil war between supporters of Mr Klaus and Mr Topolanek. ...
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ABHaber,AB Dışişleri Bakanları Sonuç Bildirisini Yayımlıyor (orjinal nihai metin)
ABHaber
The enlargement process gives strong encouragement to political and economic reform in the enlargement countries and reinforces peace, democracy and ...
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Swapping Vinegar for Honey
Transitions Online
Moldova has advanced the rhetoric of European integration for years, without rolling up its sleeves to do the hard and systematic work of reform that is a ...
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中国日报
Climate envoy takes China's message to Copenhagen
中国日报
He squeezed about half an hour from his extremely full schedule between meetings with the EU delegates and UNFCCC officials to hold a news briefing for the ...
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Open Europe - independent think tank calling for radical reform of ...
EUobserver reports that EU officials are secretively working on a global intellectual property treaty with industrialised countries such as the US , Canada , Australia and Japan , known as the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA). ...
Open Europe Daily Press Summary - http://www.openeurope.org.uk/
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: EU Ready to Bailout Greece ...
By Michael Shedlock
The European Commission “stands ready to assist the Greek government in setting out the comprehensive consolidation and reform program, in the framework of the treaty provisions for euro-area member states,” said Joaquin Almunia, ...
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis - http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
Climate Change Fraud - Obama hints at sidestepping Senate Treaty ...
By Al Ritter, Baltimore Examiner
As I mentioned in an earlier article, there is a way for Obama to avoid Senate ratification of a UN Treaty such as the Copenhagen Agreement. Instead of the required 2 /3 majority of the senate require. ... This is very similar to the “ nuclear option” that the Administration has threatened to use in Congress to pass the Healthcare reform. Our forefathers required a 2/3 majority and yet the administration has threatened to use these underhanded methods to push through ...
Home - http://climatechangefraud.com/home

Lisbon treaty on European Union reform enters into force
The European Union (EU) reform treaty, known as the Treaty of Lisbon went into effect Tuesday after more than two years of negotiations.
The Muslim News
EU's reform treaty comes into force. 01-12-2009. The Lisbon Treaty is as thick as a good ... Now the reform treaty has entered into force across the EU. ...
LISBON TREATY: EU president takes office as reform treaty comes ...
LISBON TREATY: EU president takes office as reform treaty comes into force - The European Union's first president, Herman Van Rompuy, officially took office ...