Monday 11 January 2010

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

EU sanctions Pyongyang for nuclear arms activity
JoongAng Daily
In the EU, a regulation becomes immediately effective and enforceable as law in all member states simultaneously. Unlike a directive, a regulation doesn't ...
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A French lesson on EU directives
Yorkshire Evening Post
Now the EU has stated that government energy subsidies are illegal under EU law and so by the spring the UK aluminium industry will cease to exist and ...
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Swissinfo
Swiss-EU bilateral relations to be tested
Swissinfo
“Firstly, I wish to promote good governance inside and outside the EU, particularly by closing up the gaps in the European savings taxation directive and by ...
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Focus: Fund distribution
FT Adviser
The European Union's efforts to facilitate cross-border fund distribution date back to 1985, when the original Ucits directive came into effect. ...
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Laws to help agency staff may backfire
Crain's Manchester Business
The directive is a European Union-led initiative which has been introduced to ensure that companies cannot mistreat agency workers by employing them on a ...
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Jerusalem legal counsel: Request to delay Beit Yonatan eviction illegal
Ynetnews
Israeli construction in east Jerusalem has been the focus of a long-running dispute with the US and the European Union, which consider it an obstacle to ...
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Are modchips illegal?
Gamer/Law (blog)
Since Spain is also subject to the EU Copyright Directive (which led to the introduction of the law in England that has made modchips illegal -see above), ...
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EC takes action against Bulgaria due to failure to comply with waste directive ...
Focus News
This breaches EU waste law which establishes basic waste management requirements that Member States must meet to ensure a high level of protection for the ...
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SQL Server Central
By Hugo Shebbeare
In fact, the European Commission went to the extreme as to sue Sweden for their lack of inaction with respect to the EU Data Retention Directive. The Face of Data Protection in the United Kingdom: Christopher Graham ... In sum, in the European Union, there is a need to clarify laws that are related to the management of information, and it is great to see Commissioner Graham giving guidance openly. We have to treat Data as the precious resource it deserves in our ...
SQLServerCentral.com - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/
Gamasutra: Jas Purewal's Blog - Are modchips illegal?
Since Spain is also subject to the EU Copyright Directive (which led to the introduction of the law in England that has made modchips illegal -see above), you may expect to see Spanish law also ruling that modchips are illegal. Si? ...
Gamasutra.com - All Blogs - http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/
Some interesting views on the Icesave dilemma
By alda
Lipietz participated in writing the EU directive on depositors' insurance funds, and the two of them had some highly interesting things to say about Iceland's current situation concerning the repayment of the Icesave debt. ... A little further down on the page there is an interview with Elvira Méndez Pinedo, an associate professor in European law at the University of Iceland, and finally an interview with Gerard van Vliet, advocate for a depositors' group in Holland. ...
The Iceland Weather Report - http://icelandweatherreport.com/
Will European health claims restrictions rub off on US ...
By Josef Hasslberger
In their latest article, the Alliance for Natural Health points out that there is a campaign for US regulations to follow the European directives in this instance. If we think about the high level meetings to establish a common EU/US ...
Health Supreme - http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/
Climategate – Gordon Brown Is The Biggest Danger Britain Faces ...
By toryaardvark
In fact, 80 per cent of the electricity we used last week came either from coal-fired power stations, six of which are before long to be closed under an EU anti-pollution directive, or from gas, of which we only have less than two weeks' ... Just like British jobs for British workers, a lie Brown knew he could never deliver on because it's against EUSSR law, so the £100 billion green revolution is also a lie. Brown knows full well that Carbon Trading has already cost ...
The Tory Aardvark's Blog - http://toryardvaark.wordpress.com/
Butterworths Commercial and Consumer Law Handbook | Law Society ...
The implementation of EU Directives on consumer and business protection .... 85/ 374/EEC Council Directive on the approximation of the laws, regulations and ...

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Times Online
Ashton gets second chance to convince MEPs
Times Online
The treaty came into force on December 1, after a campaign to reform the EU dating from 2001. But one of its biggest cheerleaders, Jean-Marie Colombani, ...
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Treaty of Lisbon looks to facilitate access to justice
Lexology (registration)
The key objectives of the Treaty of Lisbon are reform of the EU's institutions and legislative procedures, with particular focus on the speed and efficiency ...
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Turkish Politics in Action: The Patriarchate and Ankara
By Ragan Updegraff
Little concrete work has been done since, and with the EU reform process stalled, the AKP government going as perhaps as far as it wants to go at the moment, it is unlikely much will change in the future. Continued problems with its ...
Turkish Politics in Action - http://turkishpoliticsinaction.blogspot.com/
Gates of Vienna: Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/10/2010
By Baron Bodissey
Without that reckoning, there will be no public clamor for serious reform of a financial system that was as cunningly breached as airline security at the Amsterdam airport. ..... Cooperation and Development and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and is an associate member of the Western European Union, a intergovernmental defense organization expected to be scraped under the EU's new governing Lisbon Treaty which calls for a common EU defense policy. ...
Gates of Vienna - http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/
Mygibo News & Events » Blog Archive » Gilbert Teodoro: Light at ...
By admin
The goal is to provide proper government investments, such as infrastructure, and policies such as transparency, to afford confidence in our economy and in our people — basic education reform. .... Second, the VFA is merely an implementing treaty of Mutual Defense Treaty which embodies both countries' bilateral military obligations. To sum up I am in favor of more VFAs with other countries. China's growing influence in the Asian region and the world is increasing. ...
Mygibo News & Events - http://blog.mygibo.ph/
The Greatest Ponzi Scheme in History « Anantifederalist's Blog
By Epaminondas
Yet today we are being told that the current proposals for “health care reform”, the various “stimulus bills”, the so-called “Cap and Trade” legislation, et al, will also be self-sustaining and will reduce our nation's debt, all of it brought .... The First World War has ended and the victorious Allies have imposed a horrific peace treaty upon defeated Germany. The most odious part of that treaty was the imposition upon Germany of “war reparations” – i.e., they (upon the ...
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