Thursday 24 December 2009


European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

Business call for level playing field over EU Services Directive
Times of Malta
As the European Union's Services Directive enters into force on Monday business leaders are appealing to the government to ensure a level playing field and ...
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Call to tighten Agency Worker Regulations
Workplace Law Network (subscription)
The draft Regulations seek to implement the EU Temporary Agency Worker Directive into UK law. Agency workers are particularly vulnerable during times of ...
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IPOs Rising: Xetra, Xetra Read All About Frankfurt!
Westlaw Business Currents
In particular, enabled by factors as diverse as emerging trading platforms and nearly-new German andEU securities laws, Frankfurt has been busy ...
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ESOA Praises EU Telecoms Reform Package
Satellite Today (subscription)
The package, proposed by EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding in 2007, passed in November and become law Dec. 18. Romain Bausch, chairman of ESOA and CEO ...
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Spanish Film Funding Could Drop Huge Amounts
TheCelebrityCafe.com
In 2004 a complaint was filed by broadcasters Uteca declaring either EU Television Without FrontiersDirective or Spanish TV justify the quotas. ...
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Sustainable ICT Strategies: Copenhagen Accord And Beyond
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The EU Commission has already released a European Code of Conduct on Data Centres Energy Efficiency, and in its recent recommendation it clearly stated that ...
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Coventry News MEP's call for curb on bank bailouts
Coventry Telegraph
She said the declaration would not lead to any Euro directive that could become law in Britain but would be European-wide information sharing and advice to ...
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Grahnlaw: EU 2020 strategy and future Digital Agenda under work
By Grahnlaw
With the Telecoms Package signed and sealed, it was time for the European Union to look towards the future of electronic communications in Europe. (I would reserve the expression “delivered” for when the Directives have been transposed into national law, hopefully during the spring of 2011.) In a coming post, we turn to recent information society policy developments during the Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union, and by the Commission. Ralf Grahn ...
Grahnlaw - http://grahnlaw.blogspot.com/
Estonia adopts EU Services Directive - BONJOUR L'ESTONIE
By Shaan
Estonia has passed a law for the implementation of the European Union (EU) Services Directive. The bill was passed in the 101-seat Riigikogu with 77 votes, Baltic Business News (BBN) reports. Service providers in Estonia will now be ...
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE - http://shaan.typepad.com/shaanou/
European Union adopts new telecom rules : Infowars Ireland
By Infowars Ireland
New rules regulating and unifying European Union telecommunication systems have officially becomeEU law following their publication in the bloc's official journal Friday. The new rules, composed of the Better Regulation Directive and ...
Infowars Ireland - http://info-wars.org/
Copyright: Towards a recognition of users' rights at WIPO? | La ...
By neurone730
"The law of the United States has these exceptions because we believe access to information, cultural expression, and ideas is essential and we know that governments have a role to play in facilitating that access and reducing barriers to ... Surprisingly, the EU - represented by the European Commission before WIPO - even opposed the creation of a working group to work on the matter. Despite the fact that it is clear that national or EU policies alone cannot solve this ...
La Quadrature du Net - http://www.laquadrature.net/
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial ...
By Scott Hirst, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate...
Posted by Scott Hirst, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Wednesday December 23, 2009 at 9:03 am. Recently, Vice Chancellor Leo Strine, Jr. hosted two sessions on international aspects of ... The panel discussed the differences in practice betweenEuropean Union takeover law and the Delaware regime. Mr. Winter described the EU TakeoverDirective, and the panel discussed its effects. A video of their discussion can be accessed here. ...
The Harvard Law School Forum... - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/


Plenary session of the European Parliament - Find and Track New EU ...
European Law Monitor - News and information on the EU, policies, .... Consumers: EU Consumer Commissioner welcomes Maclaren decision to provide hinge cover ...

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Hurriyet Daily News
Turkey embarks on spirited EU offensive
Hurriyet Daily News
These include the final ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, which enabled the selection for the first time of an EU president and common foreign-policy chief ...
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Times of Malta
No strategic plan to control emissions (1)
Times of Malta
There were no firm targets for limiting the global temperature rise; no targets for carbon cuts; no commitments to a legally-binding treaty; no target year ...
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The Conservative Party Reborn
Wall Street Journal
On Europe, Tory anger is never far from the surface, especially after the Lisbon Treaty. The Labour government had promised a referendum on the EU ...
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Centre for European Reform: The EU must learn from its mistakes ...
By Centre for European Reform
The EU needs new thinking. After eight years of stop-start negotiations, the Union finally has a new rulebook, the Lisbon treaty, which entered into force earlier this month. The member-states are waiting for a new European Commission ...
Centre for European Reform - http://centreforeuropeanreform.blogspot.com/
Intellectual Property Watch » Blog Archive » Copyright Law Reform ...
By Kaitlin Mara
Even though Brazil has not signed the WIPO Copyright Treaty of 1996, in its 1998 reform it nevertheless did implement nearly literally the protection of DRM established there. ... The 1998 law reform was restrictive, raising protections to a maximum. Today, there is an imbalance between economic and public interests, he said, citing the ban on copies of excerpts of books in universities and on preservation copies by libraries as examples of over-protection. ...
Intellectual Property Watch - http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/
Religious Action Center :: RACBlog: From Copenhagen to Mexico City ...
By Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism ... World leaders will come together again in 2010 in Mexico City, with the unfinished Copenhagen agreement in hand, to finally 'seal the deal' on an international climate treaty. ...
Religious Action Center :: RACBlog - http://blogs.rj.org/rac/
BEAUTIFUL PAKISTAN: 'Good luck' for EU bad for Turkey
By MY PAKISTAN
In contrast with other bodies, EU happens to be lucky to have leaders gifted with great insight and sagacity — though exceptions are always there. The Lisbon Treaty or Reform Treaty, as we may call it, is an improved version of ...
BEAUTIFUL PAKISTAN - http://thebeautifulpakistan.blogspot.com/
Armenian News - EU AFTER THE LISBON TREATY
“The Treaty of Lisbon which came into force on 1 December 2009 represents only a kind of institutional reform, a more effective tool decision-making, a political and psychological stimulus for the revival of optimism on the further ...
Armtown.com - Armenian news - http://www.armtown.com/news/en/