Wednesday 23 December 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

Estonia adopts EU Services Directive
KMS Baltics
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, ...
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Broadband TV News
Countries behind on new EU TV rules
Broadband TV News
I urgently call on EU countries to adapt their national laws to ensure that new advertising techniques enabled by the AVMS Directive are also possible ...
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EU executive reports on law breaches
ENDS Europe (subscription)
A similar EU-wide data collection system was launched for the urban waste water directive. A few regions in the EU show worrying water quality trends that ...
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Eversheds comment: EU laws to cost UK £184bn by 2010
Eversheds Press Office (press release) (blog)
“Light focused government regulation is every manufacturing business' wish. Even more important to that is that government's rules and regulations are ...
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Act Now! There is Still Time to Turn a Potential Nightmare Into a Natural ...
The Healthier Life
New EU regulations threaten to eliminate and drastically reduce the effectiveness (as a result of lowered dosage amounts) of many essential herbs, ...
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Draft agency workers plan needs to go further
Morning Star Online
A Department of Business consultation on the implementation of the EU Temporary Agency Worker Directive closed on Friday and the TUC published its ...
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Cordis News
Is your milk chocolate the genuine article?
Cordis News
'The adoption of the JRC's testing method at international level confirms the EU's leading role in the worldwide fight against food fraud,' said Krzysztof ...
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The Enduring Crisis of Global Capitalism — Political, Social, and ...
Socialist Alternative
A similar anti-worker approach is enshrined in the different European directives. However the constitution remains, like all capitalist laws, bits of paper ...
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Britannia Radio
By Britannia Radio
A blog about the European Union, foreign policy, politics, etc ... a list of the top 100 most costly EU regulations, detailing the annual cost of the laws, ... 1 ) The Working Time Directive, to cost the UK economy £32.8 bn by 2020: ...
Britannia Radio - http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/
Jaanika Erne » Blog Archive » Has Anyone Seen Something Similar on ...
By Jaanika Erne
Because in the today's afternoon I found from the EU corner of the Estonian National Library two books on implementation of EU law - Josef Falke, Schepel Harm, Legal Aspects of Standardization in the Member States of the EC and EFTA. Vol. 1 and Vol. .... Do the public authorities use the standard as a criterion for presumption of conformity with a regulation? (States are obliged to transpose the “new approach” Directives providing for the creation of such a presumption. ...
Jaanika Erne - http://jaanikaerne.ideasoneurope.eu/
Wise Up Journal - » EU justice chief plans civil code, privacy laws
By admin2
The directive is currently awaiting the approval of the European Parliament, and the new commissioner in charge of the dossier will be tasked with steering the directive through the EU's lengthy legislative process. EU contract law ...
Wise Up Journal - http://www.wiseupjournal.com/
Archives - November 1999 December 1999 January 2000 February 2000 ...
By Richard Swetenham
New EU telecoms rules officially became EU law on 19 December following their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. The new rules composed of the Better Regulation Directive and the Citizens? Rights Directive will ...
QuickLinks Update - http://www.qlinks.net/update/update.htm
EU vows to get tough on opening TV advertising markets ...
By stevevirgin
Two years after the directive was agreed, the commission said, only Belgium, Romania and Slovakia are fully compliant with EU law, having notified the bloc's executive of their implementation. Austria, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, ...
Stevevirgin's Blog - http://virginonmedia.wordpress.com/
Commission Directive 2009/159/EU of 16 December 2009 amending, for ...
2009 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall ...
The Principle of Direct Effect in EC Law: The Supremacy of ...
The Supremacy of European Union Law and the Van Gend Criteria ... under different circumstances: Treaty articles; EC Regulations; and EC Directives. ...
Lexology - European Commission alleges UK law has not properly ...
Parent company guarantees: choice of law (Norton Rose) ... Collateral Arrangements (No.2) Regulations 2003 (SI 2004/3226) implemented the EU Directive on ...

Reuters
EU calls for more US involvement in climate works
Reuters
... at worst chaotic" and demanded an urgent reform of the process to try to reach a legal treaty when talks are expected to resume in Germany next June. ...
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Ministers nominated in Boc Cabinet get approval
Financiarul
The establishment of a European External Action Service (EEAS) is something quite new brought by the Treaty of Lisbon. The EEAS will support the activity of ...
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Northern Ireland - The European CAP policy
Meattradenewsdaily (blog)
THE man in charge of the EU Commission Office in Northern Ireland has confirmed to Farming Life that the European Parliament will play a major role in ...
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Regional Policy Commissioner designate Johannes Hahn
Europolitics.info
He says this in his written replies to the European Parliament's questionnaire: the Treaty «does not limit the intervention of cohesion policy to the ...
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Why Standard and Poor's are Right to Worry about Spanish Finances
Roubini.com (subscription)
So things have been getting worse and not better, and indeed, the EU Commission themsleves seem to take a similar view, since while they have lifted their ...
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UK - Looking at Europe and farm policy
Meattradenewsdaily (blog)
There is unlikely to be a huge reform of the CAP in 2011, even if the EU decides it wants to spend less money on agriculture and more on new global ...
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Klaus not to run in possible presidential election
Prague Daily Monitor
They have different opinions, for instance, on the EU reform Lisbon Treaty that Klaus has sharply criticised. Asked about his future, Klaus said in the ...
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UK - Meat trade must defend itself against negative press
Meattradenewsdaily (blog)
CAP reform was another threat, with the Lisbon Treaty transferring decision- making from ministers to the European Parliament. Since the last CAP budget ...
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Jack Of All Tirades: Polish President Completes Country?s ...
By John
Polish president ratifies EU reform treaty WARSAW, Poland ? Poland's president has completed his country's ratification of the European Union reform treaty ? leaving the Czech Republic as the only nation yet to sign off on the agreement ...
Jack Of All Tirades - http://jackofalltirades22.blogspot.com/
Gordon Brown: A Clear Agenda for Reform in 2010
By Gordon Brown
One of the frustrations of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference was that outdated attitudes -- and a fear of change -- prevented the binding treaty most of the world wants. That is not to detract from some significant achievements. ...
The Blog - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/
UN to Reform Climate Negotiations | Mother Jones
By Andy Kroll
since the existing UN treaty process was set into motion after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit where countries drafted the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international treaty that each subsequent Conference of the Parties, ...
MoJo Blogs and Articles | Mother Jones - http://motherjones.com/rss/blogs_and_articles
Stabroek News - Copenhagen Accord a great failure -Sweden
By Stabroek staff
“Expectations and pressure on the United States have risen after Copenhagen … to really deliver,” Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren told a news briefing yesterday after Sweden, as EU president until Dec. 31, chaired pan-EU talks . ... British Prime Minister Gordon Brown described the summit as “at best flawed and at worst chaotic” and demanded an urgent reform of the process to try to reach a legal treaty when talks are expected to resume in Germany next June. ...
Stabroek News - http://www.stabroeknews.com/
Sweden say Copenhagen was a disaster | Economically Green
By ecomtechnology
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Sweden described the Copenhagen climate change summit as a "disaster" and a "great failure" on Tuesday, ahead of a meeting of European Union environment ministers to discuss how to rescue the process. The European Union went to ... Prime Minister Gordon Brown described the summit as "at best flawed and at worst chaotic" and demanded an urgent reform of the process to try to reach a legal treaty when talks are expected to resume in Germany next June. ...
Economically Green - http://drupal.ecomtechnology.com/

Irish vote again on EU reform treaty - World news - MSNBC.com
The future of the European Union hangs in the balance as Ireland's voters decide once again whether to ratify a treaty aimed at making the 27-nation body ...
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Irish Government and Lisbon topic page | European Voice
Foreign minister blames “lack of information” for Ireland's rejection of the EU's reform treaty. Michéal Martin, Ireland's foreign minister, has said that ...