Thursday 14 January 2010

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

Barnier Seeks 'Reform' for Derivatives, Short Selling
BusinessWeek
As internal market commissioner, Barnier, 59, will be responsible for proposing EU laws regulating banks, insurance companies and private equity and hedge ...
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Potočnik pledges tougher implementation of EU green laws
EurActiv
MEPs asked several questions about how Potočnik intends to improve implementation of existing EU environmental laws. The commissioner-designate reassured ...
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INTERNET LAW - European Union To Tax Sales Of Digital Products.
IBLS INTERNET LAW (subscription)
The suggestion to the EU was that the records be kept only in the language of the seller. Application of the Directive: The USCIB pointed out that sellers ...
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European Voice
Andor makes careful first showing
European Voice
... existing directives should be transposed into national law and properly implemented. He provided a strong defence of migration into and within the EU, ...
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Scottish Parliament debates Investment Management Industry
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
There is confusion over the directive's possible impact on property funds, lack of clarity on hedge funds, and it overlaps with other EU regulations. ...
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MPs debate Sovereignty of Parliament
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
The European Union costs the United Kingdom £2000 for each man, woman and child, according to the Taxpayers' Alliance, and the new, unacceptable proposals ...
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Thoughts on the Financial Services Bill
Lexology (registration)
Arguably, the proposed EU Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers and other measures that may emanate from the Commission's Internal Market and ...
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Banking: Iceland
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
... Scheme Directive (94/19/EC) sets the minimum terms on which depositors are protected throughout the European Union and European Economic Area (EEA). ...
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Scottish Parliament hears statement on Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
Secondly, I am satisfied that the issues regarding the European Union habitats directive have been addressed by the undertaking of an appropriate assessment ...
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Healthcare and Progressivism
RedState (blog)
Contracts, the very core of personal and social freedom, are scrapped or rewritten by the administration as decades old bankruptcy laws are cast aside in ...
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Technology & Marketing Law Blog: "Law & Wikis" Panel at AALS Law ...
By Eric
The EU Database Directive, a product of the late 1990s, assumes a content development paradigm of a single database maker aggregating text-based data into a database. It does not contemplate Web 2.0. ...
Technology & Marketing Law Blog - http://blog.ericgoldman.org/
Sheffield Law School News » Blog Archive » Resently published ...
By Beedham
This is reflected in a variety of moral perspectives and regulatory regimes, already adopted or in the process of being developed, in EU Member States. In particular the “moral exclusion” clause in Article 6 of the EC Directive on the ...
Sheffield Law School News - http://www.law.dept.shef.ac.uk/news/
ALERT! New Executive Order Signed by Obama Effectively Creates ...
By Europe
You are here: Home // Europe, North America, War // ALERT! New Executive Order Signed by Obama Effectively Creates Structure of Military Governors for Martial Law ... Americans had better understand that this Executive Order along with all of those previously signed ,and with Presidential Decision Directive 51 and others will be used to destroy the Constitution and Bill of Rights and to render each American effectively into nothing more than a .... Translate EU Times ...
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WWF is going on in Brussels against coal block of RWE, EnBW and ...
By admin
Would lead to such proceedings and to shut his Commission believes that EU law has been violated, it would require the federal government to enforce the requirements of the Directive. This could lead to a withdrawal of the first ...
Fortune 500 Global - http://www.fortune500global.com/
United States of Europe: Open Europe press summary: 14 January 2010
By David Ben-Ariel
In his hearing with MEPs, incoming EU Employment and Social Affairs Commissioner Laszlo Andor said that there was a "compelling case to revisit" the EU's Working Time Directive, negotiations on which collapsed last year over MEPs' .... The ECB warned Greece that a proposed law to restructure private-sector debt could do more harm than good, saying bluntly that key parts of the law were "not consistent with the principle of an open market economy" and might squeeze off the ...
United States of Europe - http://europeunitedstates.blogspot.com/
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Services Directive, Frequently Asked Questions. ... Because there is a need to unleash the potential of the EU Single Market for services and to develop it further. ... by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning ..... The Services Directive, by building on the case law of the Court of ...

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Divisions surface as Spain outlines EU plans
AFP
... the EU, Herman Van Rompuy, and his foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, amid confusion over the leadership roles under the new Lisbon reform treaty. ...
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Bulgarian nominee under fire in bid for EU job-WRAPUP 1
Forexyard
... that emerged over the choice of an EU president last year and the long time it took to to secure member states' approval for its Lisbon reform treaty. ...
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MPs debate Sovereignty of Parliament
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
The Government have duped the British people into dangerous waters, and that betrayal is represented by the signing and enactment of the Lisbon treaty. ...
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Climate change policies should come domestically
TCU Daily Skiff
A treaty certainly looks nice on the wall, but if the larger issue is change, then the most effective results will be achieved through domestic efforts. ...
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defpro
Capable and ready for action – Norway's armed forces 2010
defpro
In the field of security policy the EU has become a more important actor than it has been in the past. The Lisbon Treaty, which came into force a month ago, ...
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European Parliament (press release)
Tuesday's round-up: Almunia, Füle, De Gucht, Jeleva, Reding, Šemeta
European Parliament (press release)
The former Czech ambassador to NATO and outgoing Minister for European Affairs delivered a diplomatic and balanced presentation on EU enlargement and ...
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SimpsonWigle Law LLP Tax News » Blog Archive » Double Taxation in ...
By Nathan Green
The applicability of this decision to US-Canadian taxes is questionable because Article 2(iii) of the Canada-US Tax Convention provides that social security taxes are taxes under the treaty. However, the proposed US health care reform ...
SimpsonWigle Law LLP Tax News - http://blog.simpsonwigle.com/
2020 vision | Policies | Economics | Management | European Voice
What is emerging as one of the most contentious points is the extent to which the EU collectively can impose its agreed ambitions for economic reform on a recalcitrant member state. ... Olli Rehn, the European commissioner-designate for economic affairs, said that he will make use of a new power, granted to the Commission by the Lisbon treaty, to issue 'formal warnings' to member states that pursue economic polices contrary to those agreed at EU level. ...
European Voice - RSS - http://www.europeanvoice.com/page/european-voice/1.aspx
Divisions surface as Spain outlines EU plans | francais
By admin
... its willingness to bow to the authority of the new permanent president of the EU, Herman Van Rompuy, and his foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, amid confusion over the leadership roles under the new Lisbon reform treaty. ...
francais - http://digireporter.nl/francais/
Feral Scholar » Blog Archive » The arts of the possible
By DeAnander
It is not possible to achieve a binding CO2 emissions reduction treaty. It is not possible to reform our commercial and banking systems. It is not possible to feed the hungry. It is not possible to stop fighting wars. ...
Feral Scholar - http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/
The Washington Monthly
By Steve Benen
U.S. and Russia are "really close" to a new arms treaty, replacing START, which has expired. * According to the Federal Reserve, there is economic growth in 10 of its 12 districts. * Wall Street CEOs on the defensive: "Challenged by a ... " Harry Reid thinks it was a waste of time pleading with Olympia Snowe to be reasonable on health care reform. He's probably right." The fact that it took Reid 9 months to figure this out is prima facie evidence that he needs to be ...
Political Animal - http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
Britannia Radio
weekly/fortnightly review on EU - THE EU SCEPTIC MOVEMENT AND EXIT STARATEGY FOR UK. E U Referendum. Dr Richard North explains the The Reform Treaty and Why ...