Friday 8 January 2010

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

Employment law changes in 2010
CatererSearch
Again looking further ahead, during 2010 employers can expect to see draft regulations concerning implementation of the EU Agency Workers Directive, ...
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Green activists urge EU to act on Nord Stream gas pipe
EurActiv
The Commission does not have the power to stop the project, but the NGOs hope it will ask member states to implement the EU directives appropriately. ...
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David Prosser: Talk of a gas crisis is just hot air
Independent
When 2015 comes and if we have been stupid enough not to have built 2 year construction time CCGT gas power stations to meet the gap, then an EU directive ...
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CNN International
Britain expects repayment from Iceland, despite president's rejection
CNN International
Under a European Union directive, Iceland owes compensation to Britain. Iceland's parliament passed a bill last week authorizing a state guarantee for ...
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In the eye
Economist
The European Union's takeover directive of 2004 obliges all members to pass laws forcing bidders to make mandatory offers to minority shareholders at an ...
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Globe and Mail
China's greatest adversary: Mickey Mouse
Globe and Mail
(Also in December, the United States and the 27 countries of the European Union filed a WTO challenge to China's export restrictions on raw materials used ...
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Give agency workers proper protection, TUC tells Labour
Tribune (blog)
... working hours in its response to the draft Agency Worker Regulations which seek to implement the EU Temporary Agency Worker Directive into British law. ...
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Legal Uncertainty on Iceland's Icesave Responsibility
IcelandReview
Joly suggested that Icelandic authorities establish an international arbitration to solve the Icesave dispute with assistance from the European Union. ...
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Italian Pirate Bay ruling gets mixed review
The Industry Standard
The court clarified the existence of legal remedies based on Italy's adoption of the European Union's year 2000 directive on electronic commerce, ...
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SGS Adds Testing for 15 New Substances in Europe's REACH Program
PR Newswire (press release)
The latest additions - approved by the EU Member States Committee in December - are pending final European Chemical Agency approval. ...
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jonvalurjensson - The UK Government is breaking EU law in the ...
By jonvalurjensson
The UK Government is breaking EU law in the Icesave issue. [info] jonvalurjensson: January 8th, 4:26. First main point: Directive 94/19/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (1994), on deposit guarantee schemes, says: ... unlawful demands, and scare tactics in the process, such as exerting pressure on us through the IMF, in which both the UK and the Netherlands are shareholders (which action, however, goes against the original aims and regulations of the IMF ), ...
jonvalurjensson - http://jonvalurjensson.livejournal.com/
Grahnlaw: Speed of EU legislation: Audiovisual Media Services ...
By Grahnlaw
The EU member states were given two years from publication to adopt the necessary measures to turn the AVMS Directive into national law; the so called transposition date was 19 December 2009. This was not a groundbreaking legal act, ...
Grahnlaw - http://grahnlaw.blogspot.com/
Clinical Trials « Simon Denegri's Blog
By ceoamrc
I mention that because today AMRC publishes its response to the European Commission public consultation paper on how well the EU Clinical Trials Directive has worked in practice since it came into law in 2001. ... But the result is law which has, at the very least, represented a significant challenge in terms of implementation. At its worst we have seen an increase in regulation and bureaucracy, associated negative impacts in terms of costs and time-delays. ...
Simon Denegri's Blog - http://ceoamrc.wordpress.com/
EU nations divided over use of body scanners at European airports ...
By Slobodan Lekic
Even if the EU decides to mandate the use of body scanners, it could take many months before the decision is turned into binding regulations all 27 member nations must comply with. Paul Wilkinson, former director of the Center for the ... Privacy campaigners say the technology, designed to reveal concealed liquids, explosives or weapons violates European law by producing sexually explicit images of the passengers. Inayat Bunglawala, a spokesman with the Muslim Council of ...
Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog - http://blog.taragana.com/
News | The Independent UK - David Prosser: Talk of a gas crisis is ...
By The Independent
Second, if we don't do this obvious, cheap, clean, quick to build solution, we will simply ignore the EU directive or fit flue gas scrubbers at some cost. No problemo, just a price risk or a risk we upset the EU by not following the ...
News | The Independent UK - http://news.independentminds.livejournal.com/
Key Documents
Directive 2003/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the ... a Europe free from tobacco smoke: policy options at EU levelAll available translations. ... on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative ...