Wednesday 20 January 2010

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

Bing may beat Google to compliance with EU anonymization directive
BetaNews
In April 2008, the European Union's advisory body of member states' telecommunications ministers, called the Article 29 Working Party, advised that search ...
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AFP
EU tiptoes into Luxembourg tax row
AFP
Amendments to EU laws on the taxation of savings interest, on cooperation between tax administrations and on tax recovery, as well as anti-fraud agreements ...
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Brown wants tougher 'SME test' for EU laws
EurActiv
Brown also wants to invite the European Court of Auditors to perform annual check-ups to assess whether better regulation programmes are delivering on their ...
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UK employment law changes to cost firms £27bn
Procurement Leaders News
The business group is also calling on the UK government to lead a campaign for an EU-wide moratorium. David Frost, director general of the BCC, ...
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Real Business
BCC: Red tape threatens recovery
Real Business
This time the government cannot claim that its hands are tied by laws emanating from Europe, just two of the new regulations are European Union measures. ...
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ECJ: German rules violate principle of non-discrimination
Europolitics.info
The court found that EU law, in particular the principle of non-discrimination as set out in Directive 2000/78, precludes legislation such as the German ...
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Client Newsletter Winter 2009 – Financial Services
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Under the Directive the EU Home State regulator is required to ensure that no AIFM manages an AIF unless it has been authorised in accordance with the ...
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Data Privacy Practices Explored
Compliance Week (subscription)
... by the Organizations for Economic Cooperation and Development, the privacy directive from the European Union, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. ...
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Summary of the hearing of Cecilia Malmström - Home Affairs
European Parliament (press release)
She would be submitting a draft EU law on unaccompanied minors. Claude Moraes (S&D, UK) was concerned about conflicts that might be caused by the split of ...
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Bing may beat Google to compliance with EU anonymization directive
By Tech Geek
Under a new policy that may take as long as 18 months to implement, the company says, it will anonymize its data logs after only six months of retention rather than the previous 18, in compliance with a European Union directive — perhaps ... Though it's still not quite six months, the Working Party's advice isn't exactly law, and Google isn't in violation. However, researchers including at Harvard University soon learned that “anonymize” did not mean “delete:” Google's ...
The Mobile Fun Blog - http://www.mobilefun.ws/
Bing may beat Google to compliance with EU anonymization directive ...
Under a new policy that may take as long as 18 months to implement, the company says, it will anonymize its data logs after only six months of retention rather than the previous 18, in compliance with a European Union directive -- perhaps ... to anonymize its server logs after nine months rather than the 18- to 24-month period it had previously observed. Though it's still not quite six months, the Working Party's advice isn't exactly law, and Google isn't in violation. ...
Blodic.us - Latest News - http://blodic.us/
United States of Europe: Open Europe press summary: 19 January 2010
By David Ben-Ariel
... laws to help firms cope with 'daunting' extra costs, and is urging the Government to lead a campaign for an EU-wide delay to the introduction of regulations. Some of those costs will come from the EU's Agency Workers Directive, ...
United States of Europe - http://europeunitedstates.blogspot.com/
p2pnet news » Blog Archive » p2pnet World Headlines: Jan 19, 2010
By Jon
A Justice Department inspector general's report due out this month is expected to conclude that the FBI frequently violated the law with its emergency requests, bureau officials confirmed. ... The decree is ostensibly an enactment of a European Union (EU) directive on product placement and is due to go into effect at the end of January after being subjected to a nonbinding appraisal by parliament. On Thursday opposition lawmakers held a press conference in parliament to ...
p2pnet news - http://www.p2pnet.net/
Julien Frisch: ECJ: European legislation on anti-discrimination ...
By Julien Frisch
European Union law, more particularly the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of age as given expression by Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and ...
Julien Frisch - http://julienfrisch.blogspot.com/
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on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council .... the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this ... in Council for the objective of simplifying the acquis of EU law, ...
Commission Directive 2010/1/EU of 8 January 2010 amending Annexes ...
the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith ...
Implication of EU Data protection directive and national
under national law or rules Processing of health data needs sufficient ... EU data protection directive key to protecting citizens fundamental rights ...

Bulgarian's withdrawal boosts EU Comm chances
TVNZ
The treaty, which came into force last month, is meant to reform the bloc's institutions, improve decision-making and strengthen the European Union's role ...
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Sofia Echo
European Maritime Commissioner-designate quizzed by MEPs
Sofia Echo
EU fisheries policy reform and funding, bringing decision making closer to those directly involved, environmentally-sustainable fishing, competitiveness and ...
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FinFacts Ireland
Wednesday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories ...
FinFacts Ireland
However, the value of the investment that did pour into EU member states was down 29 per cent on 2008. In this scenario, Ireland was one of only six ...
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Greece's Damanaki cautious on sensitive issues
Europolitics.info
“We will do whatever is possible within the limits of and in strict respect for the treaty,” she said. For the future commissioner, the reformed CFP will ...
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Late-night grill: Round up of Tajani and Šefčovič hearings
European Parliament (press release)
He said that implementation of the Lisbon treaty, the creation of the citizens initiative, better cooperation between EU institutions and increased ...
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Tuesday's hearings: Malmström and Damanaki
European Parliament (press release)
She welcomed the fact that under Lisbon Treaty fisheries will be subject to the ordinary legislative procedure, giving an even greater role for the European ...
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Democracy Resource Center Blog: Explaining the Treaty of Lisbon
By Democracy Resource Center
The European Union (EU) of 27 members has been operating with rules designed for an EU of 15 Member States. To realise its full potential, the European Union needs to modernize and reform. Posted by Democracy Resource Center at 7:34 AM ...
Democracy Resource Center Blog - http://democracyresourcecenter.blogspot.com/
ConservativeHome's Parliament Page: Conservatives move ...
By ConservativeHome
Yesterday saw the committee stage of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill. During proceedings, Mark Francois, the shadow Europe minister, moved an amendment which would put a "referendum lock" on any future handover of power to ... "These amendments and new clause 68 would ensure that any future treaty that transferred areas of power or competences from the United Kingdom Parliament to the European Union would require the consent of the British people in a ...
ConservativeHome's Parliament Page - http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/
Snus News & Other Tobacco Products: Does BAT influence EU policies ...
By tobaccowatch.org
PAPER: “Working the System”—British American Tobacco's Influence on the European Union Treaty and Its Implications for Policy: An Analysis of Internal Tobacco Industry Documents, Katherine E. Smith1, Gary Fooks, Jeff Collin, Heide Weishaar, Sema Mandal1, ... Katherine Smith and colleagues analyzed more than 700 internal BAT documents with information on BAT's attempts to influence European regulatory reform, and interviewed relevant European policymakers and lobbyists. ...
Snus News & Other Tobacco Products - http://snus-news.blogspot.com/
TheGrowGuide » Blog Archive » Benjamin Franklin Invented NORML ...
By admin
... Of all of America's Founding Fathers, only Benjamin Franklin was a signer of all three of our country's essential documents, The Declaration of Independence, the Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and the United States Constitution . .... Benjamin Franklin Invented NORML (and the marijuana law reform movement)! – 4903th Edition The WeedMaps.com Blog Today America Celebrates Ben Franklin's 304th... NORML Board Member: I've Seen A Better Alternative To Marijuana ...
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Lib Dems betray voters on Europe – again | Kevin Davis
By Kevin Davis
One of the oddities of the last general Election is that the two major parties, and the Lib Dems, had as a manifesto commitment to hold a referendum on Lisbon Treaty.Once that treaty became law it was of course right that those manifesto ... Yesterday the Conservative party moved an amendment to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill that would put in place a referendum lock that would ensure no further powers are transferred to the EU without a referendum. ...
Kevin Davis - http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/
The Irish Yes Referendum on the Lisbon Reform Treaty: Some ...
The Nice Treaty was designed to provide the constitutional-institutional reform required in order to accommodate the historic 10-Member States EU ...