Wednesday 6 January 2010

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

Reuters
Global financial regulation overhaul seen in 2010
Reuters
In Europe, EU member states and the European Parliament must still rule on a range of proposed regulations for banks, markets, insurers, hedge funds and ...
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Icelanders Resist Bailout Scheme
The New American
The unclear legal basis of the claims under the relevant EU directive and reluctance of the British and Dutch governments to have them clarified by the ...
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Energy Matters
Strict Battery Recycling Laws Begin in EU
Energy Matters
by Energy Matters As of the beginning of this year, manufacturers of all kinds of batteries sold in the European Union will have to pay for the collection, ...
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E-Borders not illegal after all
Yachting Monthly
The Government has provided a series of assurances to the European Union to ensure that its £1.2 billion e-Borders programme will be consistent with EU law. ...
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Bankers' bonus tax hits first hurdle
EurActiv
Meanwhile, in Brussels, plans to adopt a pan-European law to curb bankers' remuneration are under scrutiny at the EU Council of Ministers and the European ...
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Investment Trusts Under Threat
Motley Fool UK
That wasn't, in fact, the actual intent of the EU's proposed Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFM). But by casting its legislative net so ...
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Irish Times
Should classic cars be immune from NCT tests?
Irish Times
An RSA spokesman said that the relevant EU directive on vehicle testing allows a derogation on the mandatory testing of historic vehicles. ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Rugby's road to nowhere? Why 2010 is a pivotal year
The Guardian (blog)
If the International Board fails to acknowledge it has a major problem in terms of the existing directives at the breakdown and does not do something about ...
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Law And Technology: EU DATA RETENTION DIRECTIVE: WOULD IT SURVIVE?
By Prof. Abu Bakar Munir
The EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC is being implemented. This Directive obligates the operators of public telephone services and internet service providers to retain communications data for a period of between six months and two years for the ... The SAC held that Art. 5 of the Regulation is in contradiction with the provision of Article 8 of the ECHR. On 16 March 2009, the Administrative Court of Wiesbaden in Germany held that the blanket recording of the entire ...
Law And Technology - http://profabm.blogspot.com/
Why the European Union Should Allow Class Action Lawsuits ...
By Santiago Cueto
In an attempt to avoid any abuse of class actions, however, the draft directive underlines that only state bodies or non profit-making organizations appointed by national governments in the EU can bring class action lawsuits in national courts. If adopted as a Directive ... Opening the court house gates to private damage actions for alleged violations of EU antitrust law would represent a fundamental shift in EU competition policy on two fronts. First, the proposal would ...
International Business Law Advisor - http://www.internationalbusinesslawadvisor.com/
Opinio Juris » Blog Archive » An Initial Response: Framing Biases ...
By Greg Shaffer and Mark Pollack
... but rather an observation that the letter of EU law often masks a regulatory practice which is guided less by scientific risk analysis or policy deliberation than the EU's own directives, regulations and policy statements might lead ...
Opinio Juris - http://opiniojuris.org/
ResEuropa: Iceland's latest spat with UK rocks EU acession hopes
By kevin doran
His action in using anti-terrorist laws to freeze the British assets of a failing Icelandic bank caused immense offence, and undoubtedly helped to put the skids under efforts to keep the bank afloat. ... Already question marks are being raised in Rekjavik by opponents of repayment over the legal definition of the EU directive on saving guarantees which the UK and the Netherlands are basing their demands on for repayment for bailing out savers. ...
ResEuropa - http://reseuropa.blogspot.com/
Global financial regulation overhaul seen in 2010 | Analysis ...
By Randall Mikkelsen
In Europe, EU member states and the European Parliament must still rule on a range of proposed regulations for banks, markets, insurers, hedge funds and private equity groups. ... “One of the biggest things at the European level is what they are calling the markets infrastructure directive. It started life about regulating derivatives but is becoming a complete redesign of financial trading in Europe,” said Simon Gleeson, a partner at the law firm Clifford Chance. ...
Financial Regulatory Forum - http://blogs.reuters.com/financial-regulatory-forum/
EUR-Lex - 32009L0159 - EN
Commission Directive 2009/159/EU of 16 December 2009 amending, .... the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this ...
Grahnlaw: EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive proposal ...
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euronews (press release)
Spanish EU Presidency takes economic bull by the horns
euronews (press release)
Spain's unemployment is pushing 20 percent, twice the European Union average. While the Lisbon reform Treaty now in force will phase out the EU rotational ...
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EU to plan 10 years of growth
Financial Times
He has identified economic reform as a priority, saying the EU must at least double its average annual growth rate of 1 per cent if it wants a generously ...
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Greek PM: "Greece will be your most reliable partner and a true friend"
emportal
It is undergoing a process of transformation, with the ratification of Lisbon Treaty, as well as the Corfu Process recently launched under Greece's ...
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A Stronger Europol
Voxy
We will use this period of reform to our mandate and capabilities, and the opportunities afforded by the Lisbon Treaty, to establish Europol as the criminal ...
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What's Old Is New: The UK Supreme Court
The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel
Editor: How does this work with the UK's EU treaty obligations and the European Court of Justice? If there's a conflict with UK legislation, ...
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The region in the new decade
Stabroek News
The implementation of the WTO treaty brought the whole issue of agricultural commodities' trade into prominence, and some resolution of that issue in turn ...
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[JTW Analysis] The New German Foreign Minister's Visit to Turkey: What is on ...
Journal of Turkish Weekly
Westerwelle stressed the loyalty of the EU Treaty, so that full membership will continue to be a prospect. However, an alternative connection of Turkey to ...
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Kazakhstan Poised to Promote Medvedev's European Security Proposals
Jamestown Foundation
He appeared to link the draft treaty with Kazakhstan's influential position in the OSCE. Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was more unequivocal: “European ...
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What Would Wilson Do?
Atlantic Online
The Marshall Plan, announced in 1947, catalyzed the process that eventually yielded the European Union. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, ...
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Unconstitutional 'Perpetuity Clauses' Inserted Obama's Nazi Health Bill Is A ...
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)
"It has all the paw-marks" of the British operation against Europe, contained in the EU's Lisbon Treaty, which had the identical irreversible feature. ...
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IntelliBriefs: Curtain Falls on Efficient Swedish EU Presidency
By Naxal Watch
The ratification of the EU Reform Treaty (commonly referred to as the Lisbon Treaty) was a major headache for the EU and its Swedish presidency. The treaty, which extends the powers of the European Parliament, strengthens the bloc's ...
IntelliBriefs - http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/
Grahnlaw: Britian: A constructive EU curmudgeon?
By Grahnlaw
In the Grahnlaw blog posts Denouncing the EU Lisbon Treaty – UK Tories and the long grass (1 January 2010) and British and Irish opt-outs from EU JHA law (3 January 2010) we turned to one of the recurring themes of this blog: the (future) ... the Centre for European Reform and more moderate Conservatives share. By way of caricature, one could describe their European Union as the economic pillar of the Council of Europe, with a few intergovernmental frills thrown in. ...
Grahnlaw - http://grahnlaw.blogspot.com/
BURMA DIGEST » Article » Europe's Latest Revolution
By taisamyone
In more practical terms, that means continuing to honor Article 49 of the Treaty of Rome, which keeps the door to membership open to any European country willing and able to share the EU's values, interests, and policies. ... South-eastern Europe – the Western Balkans, Ukraine, and Turkey – aim at becoming EU citizens. Membership will obviously take time, but the accession process will drive modernization and democratic reform in a way that will strengthen all of Europe. ...
BURMA DIGEST - http://burmadigest.info/
Elections and Referendums of the Decade « World Elections
By glhermine
Ireland Lisbon I referendum, 2008: The Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in 2008 was as significant to the European Union's 'reform process' as was the French rejection of the EU constitution. The relatively large NO vote, ...
World Elections - http://welections.wordpress.com/
Imedia English: Romanian P.M.: Ratification of small border ...
By Imedia English
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc asked the ruling Democratic Liberal Party to ratify a fiscal responsibility law, a law on local administration reform, and a law on a small-scale border trade and population flow agreement with Chisinau. Mr. Boc said that he spoke with his Moldovan counterpart Vlad Filat on Monday and assured him that the treaty would be ratified. The agreement allows Moldovans living around the Romanian border to travel to within 50 kilometers on Romanian ...
Imedia English - http://imediaenglish.blogspot.com/