Wednesday 27 January 2010

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

EU to investigate Virgin Media surveillance
TG Daily
"Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PECR) and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) as well as the ...
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Microsoft's Top Lawyer Urges New EU Laws for Cloud Computing
PC World
The existing EU laws "are starting to show their age," he told students, EU officials and industry executives.The data retention law passed in 2006, ...
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Report Advocates Revoking UK Mandatory Retirement Law
The Epoch Times
It confirmed that Britain's national DRA falls within the scope of European Union law, but made it clear the High Court had to look at social and economic ...
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Reuters
Internet companies voice alarm over Italian law
Reuters
"The next step, if the law stays as it is, is going to be to discuss this with the European authorities." EU sources told Reuters on Tuesday the Commission ...
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Let's fight the church on equality
The Guardian
That is a general principle of European law by which the United Kingdom is bound. The amendments would remove that principle as regards differences of ...
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Times of Malta
Hunters formally request PM to allow Spring hunting
Times of Malta
"The Maltese hunters' status as equal citizens within the EU, now endorsed by none other than Europe's top judicial body, expects that you apply the ...
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Sweden takes tough line on 0.1% sulphur requirement
portworld
Sweden introduced the EU Directive into Swedish legislation four years ago, and the Swedish Transport Agency's Maritime division said it was not aware of ...
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YouTube, EU e-commerce rules under threat
EurActiv
Many fear that the move - a clear breach of the E-Commerce Directive - could set a dangerous precedent for other EU countries to follow. ...
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Consumer remedies for faulty goods: the right to reject
Lexology (registration)
Something therefore has to give at EU level. If the proposed Directive does go through as a maximum harmonisation measure then the hope is that the EU ...
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EUROPEAN PLATFORM OF WOMEN SCIENTISTS: EU Gender Equality Law ...
By EPWS
The publication provides a brief and general overview of the main features of EU gender equality law and its transposition in the 27 Member States of the European Union, as well as in the EEA countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway to which most of the ... A number of features are common to all directives, namely certain central concepts, such as discrimination and harassment, and matters relating to compliance and the enforcement of the equality rules in practice. ...
EUROPEAN PLATFORM OF WOMEN SCIENTISTS - http://www.epws.net/
The Legal Blotter » Blog Archive » Microsoft's Top Lawyer Urges ...
The European Union should update its laws to better suit cloud computing, Microsoft's top lawyer urged in Brussels Tuesday.Laws covering data protection and data retention go back to the mid-1990s and need to be revised to take into ... Under the directive authorities can request access to details such as IP address and time of use of every e-mail, phone call and text message sent or received. a request to access the information can be done only with a court order. ...
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Tech News U.S. | Microsoft's Top Lawyer Urges New EU Laws for ...
By yahoo
Microsoft's Top Lawyer Urges New EU Laws for Cloud Computing (PC World) 29741 1 2 3 4 5 (0 votes, average 0 out of 5) Written by yahoo Tuesday, 26... ... Under the directive authorities can request access to details such as IP address and time of use of every e-mail, phone call and text message sent or received. A request to access the information can be done only with a court order. Smith said countries have chosen widely varying retention times. ...
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Internet companies voice alarm over Italian law
By Andy Sennitt
However, he said he did not think the law was written expressly for this purpose. The proposed regulations would make Internet sites as liable as television stations for their content and subject to hefty fines by the AGCOM media watchdog, according to a 33-page draft. ... Even the head of AGCOM, Corrado Calabro, told reporters on the sidelines of a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday the decree should be revised because it would “deform” the EU directive. ...
Media Network - http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/
Technology » Blog Archive » Microsoft's Top Lawyer Urges New EU ...
The existing E.U. laws “are starting to show their age,” he told students, E.U. officials and industry executives.The data retention law passed in 2006, when cloud computing was mostly limited to online e-mail accounts, calls on the 27 E.U. member states to each set their own length of time for the retention of data, between six and 24 months. Under the directive authorities can request access to details such as IP address and time of use of […] Original post by PC World ...
Technology - http://technology.q2w.eu/
IAM Magazine - IP Value 2010 - An International Guide for the ...
EU directive provides little help to Greek patent owners ... and • Decision 1457 approving the regulation for the application of the Law on Utility Models. ...
Directive topic page | European Voice
Tags: Directive on services in the internal market, European Union law, ... the European defence market is held back by fragmented regulations and slow ...
Lloyd's Register Group - Directives
EC Product Directives were created by the European Union EU to achieve the ... on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions ...

EU Sees Dreams of Power Wane
Wall Street Journal
EU countries haven't helped their own cause lately. The Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force in December after eight years of struggle, was meant to make ...
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Blogging ACTA Across The Globe: FFII's Ante Wessels on Exporting Europe's Flaws
EFF (blog)
One troubling possibility is that our most controversial IP regulations would be frozen in ACTA with no obvious way to reform them. The EU is still in the ...
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Reuters UK (blog)
Europe draws inspiration from US Peace Corps
Reuters UK (blog)
Greece's idea might seem pie-in-the-sky, but it is actually something the Lisbon treaty – the EU reform document that came into force last month — calls ...
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EurActiv
Crossick: Europe should dust off its founding fathers' ideals
EurActiv
Do you think the Lisbon Treaty can help? Yes. The Lisbon Treaty puts the mechanisms in place to change this approach and to work towards a single voice, ...
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p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Angus to Van Loan on ACTA
By Jon
Significantly, what he failed to explain is that if Canada agrees to ACTA before new legislation is introduced, the government will have given away the right of the House to shape the substance of any copyright reform legislation. ... In leaked official ACTA documents from the EU, it is clear that provisions would use treaty obligations as a means of superseding Canadian case law and imposing the U.S. Supreme Court's Grokster opinion upon Canadians. ...
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Blogging ACTA Across The Globe: FFII's Ante Wessels on Exporting ...
By danny
Every major country in the ACTA negotiations claims that its own laws will remain unchanged by the treaty. But without changing a word of domestic law, ACTA can still be dangerous to a country's — or a continent's — economy. This week at Deeplinks, ... What would be the outcome of an ACTA where EU IP legislation is exported to the world? One troubling possibility is that our most controversial IP regulations would be frozen in ACTA with no obvious way to reform them. ...
LibertyVoice - http://www.libertyvoice.net/
Irish Election
By Neil Ward
... Education (4), enda kenny (3), EU (4), Europe (2), European Commission (3), European Parliament (3), European Union (7), eurosceptic (3), Fianna Fail (18), Fine Gael (10), Government (2), Green Party (5), Ireland (5), Irish Job Losses ( 2) ... lisbon (6), Lisbon Treaty (14), liveblog (3), Mahon Tribunal (3), Mary Harney (2), Northern Ireland (2), Politics (7), Progressive Democrats (2), Referenda (3), Referendum (6), Reform Treaty (4), Sinn Féin (3), third-level (2) ...
Irish Election - http://www.irishelection.com/
United States of Europe: Open Europe press summary: 26 January 2010
By David Ben-Ariel
... threatening to field a spoiler candidate against the Conservative Parliamentary candidate in the constituency seat of former Europe Minister Jim Murphy, unless the Conservative candidate supports calls for a referendum to overturn the Lisbon Treaty. ... Open Europe is an independent think tank campaigning for radical reform of the EU. For information on our research, events and other activities, please visit our website: openeurope.org.uk or call us on 0207 197 2333. ...
United States of Europe - http://europeunitedstates.blogspot.com/
ECHR BLOG: PACE, S-G, and Interlaken
By Antoine Buyse
a number of the Court's main “clients” have made no serious effort to put into effect the 2000- 2004 reform package (will ministers take upon themselves the responsibility to 'name and shame' states that have put into jeopardy the existence of the ECHR system?), and .... The Treaty of Lisbon assures a legal basis for EU accession, and the imminent entry into force of Protocol No.14 to the Convention will provide the legal basis on the Strasbourg side. ...
ECHR BLOG - http://echrblog.blogspot.com/
YouTube - A TV debate on the EU Reform Treaty: Part 3/3
A TV debate on the EU Reform Treaty with members of the public, Bill Newton-Dunn MEP, Timothy Kirkhope MEP and myself.Part 3 of 3.
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