Thursday 4 February 2010

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

Sweden loses EU data directive ruling
The Local
The European Union directive, known as the Data Retention Directive, was approved by Brussels in March 2006, but Sweden has yet to implement the measure ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Bank of England slams EU draft Directive
Telegraph.co.uk
The Bank of England has given warning that the controversial EU Directive on regulating hedge funds and private equity firms could lead to systemic failure ...
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Spain Seeks Tougher Rules for Non-EU Hedge Funds
Wall Street Journal
Ultimately, both the parliament and EU member countries have to vote in favor of the legislation for it to become law. Negotiations are expected to last ...
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High-Frequency Trading Faces Review by UK Treasury
Bloomberg
3 (Bloomberg) -- High-frequency trading, an investment strategy under scrutiny in the US and European Union, will be reviewed by the UK Treasury, ...
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Cyprus: The EU Has/Has Not Achieved A Proper Balance Between Competition Law ...
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Barnard, C., The Substantive Law of the EU, [2004] Oxford. 10. Commission Regulation 240/96 on the Application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty to certain ...
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Only Kent (blog)
New UK business regulations
Only Kent (blog)
... warns Kings Hill-based solicitors Vertex Law. The Provision of Services Regulations 2009, a set of rules which integrate the EU Services Directive into ...
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Parties cannot avoid Commercial Agents Regulations by choice of non-EU law and ...
Lexology (registration)
The European Court of Justice held that the mandatory provisions of EU law which are given effect by the Regulations could not be evaded “by the simple ...
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Linklaters LLP > Calm down dear, itrsquos only a cookie
Linex Legal (registration)
But soon you will need consent The provisions in the ePrivacy Directive have now been amended as part of the wider reform of telecoms laws in the EU. ...
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European Commission passes new e-Privacy Directive requiring mandatory data ...
Lexology (registration)
The Directive is part of the EU's telecom reform package. In addition to the Directive, the package consists of Directive 2009/140/ EC and Regulation (EC) ...
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New EU WEEE proposals (Directive Decoder)
A study published by the European Commission recommends the creation of a dedicated European body to oversee the implementation and enforcement of European Union waste law. ... Directive Decoder on Electronics Weekly ... Yorkshire for four years, and in June 2009 was appointed to the Electronics Regulatory Group that was set up by the then DTI to ensure that the legitimate interests of the sector were taken into account in the development of relevant regulation. ...
Directive Decoder - http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/electronics-legislation/
EU Pundit: EU Commission outlines plans to strengthen privacy law ...
By Andis Kaulins
"The European Commission is planning to beef up the Data Protection Directive, strengthening the enforcement of the EU law and including introducing new demands that technologies and processes include 'privacy by design'. ...
EU Pundit - http://eupundit.blogspot.com/
Britannia Radio
By Britannia Radio
accordance with the Annex to this Directive. Article 2. 1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 1 September. 2010 at the latest, the laws, regulations ... Country Of Origin Principle and European Union Law topic page . ...
Britannia Radio - http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/
News | The Independent UK - EU allies to show solidarity with ...
By The Independent
Cameron has added insult to injury by ordering Tory councillors on the EU's Committee of the Regions to leave the EPP group on that body. * Tory plans to repatriate powers to the UK on social and employment laws will be resisted by other EU ... If they lose Brown as the UK PM, the EU will have to work that much harder to get the UK to adopt whatever half-assed directives it comes up with and to keep taking the yearly blackmail/bribe/whatever you want to call it from us. ...
News | The Independent UK - http://news.independentminds.livejournal.com/
Dalai's PACS Blog: EU Disturbs The Magnetic Force
By Dalai
(1) Under the Treaty (creating the European Union) the Council may, by means of directives, adopt minimum requirements for encouraging improvements, especially in the working environment, to guarantee a better level of protection of the health and safety of workers. Such directives are to avoid ... Incorporation of these limits into law will make many interventional MR procedures illegal in Europe, closing off development of a field with tremendous clinical potential. ...
Dalai's PACS Blog - http://doctordalai.blogspot.com/
EUR-Lex - 62009J0259 - EN
Access to European Union law. Please select a language, български (bg) ... it was expected that the regulations transposing the directive in Gibraltar would ...
Shortcuts to Supranationalism: The Article 90 Directive in the ...
The EU could simply be too large to gain consensus in anything but overly broad ... Creating Regulations, Directives and Soft Law in the European Union ...

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Spiegel Online
Obama's No-Show Disappoints Europe
Spiegel Online
Yet the summit was supposed to be the first since the EU ratified the Lisbon Treaty, on Dec. 1, 2009, which created the posts of president and foreign ...
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EU Economy: European Commission Wants Greece To Take Tough Reform Measures
eGov monitor
More specifically, the Commission adopted an opinion on the Greek Stability Programme for 2010-2013, a Recommendation under Art 126(9) of the Treaty on the ...
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EU Commission set for approval after last hearing
Forexyard
... nomination of a long-term EU president and a new foreign policy chief, by delays in securing member states' approval for the EU's Lisbon reform treaty ...
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Most EU hopefuls face long wait to membership
Tehran Times
Some EU leaders also show little interest in enlargement while reforms are being implemented under the Lisbon treaty, which came into force on December 1, ...
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Turkey to the EU's Rescue
Project Syndicate
This in part arises from a failure to provide the EU with political power. The Lisbon Treaty was a compromise constitutional arrangement that would ...
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Turkey to the EU's Rescue - Project Syndicate
But in Copenhagen, the structure established by the Lisbon Treaty failed. Can anyone even recall what the EU's new president said there? Indeed, can anyone even remember his name? (It is Herman von Rumpoy, in case you were wondering. ... establish close ties with the world's 1.8 billion Muslims, and could become a credible voice on reform within the Islamic world. Turkish membership in the Union would also greatly ease the assimilation of the EU's own Muslim minorities. ...
Project Syndicate - http://www.project-syndicate.org/
SustainabiliTank: The EU refuses to see the multi headed Hydra it ...
By Pincas Jawetz
For the last three years, if it hasn't been the institutional reform of the Lisbon Treaty, it's been the bloc's obsession with climate change that has dominated the EU agenda. Even if the EU is well off ...
Sustainabilitank - http://www.sustainabilitank.info/
EU Commission accepts Greece's budget | Fortune 500 Global
By admin
The Commission has applied in the case of Greece for the first time provided for in the Treaty opportunity for simultaneous monitoring of economic and fiscal policy: they decided an opinion on the stability program of the Greek government ... The Commission recommended that EU finance ministers also call on Greece to a "comprehensive" structural reform to enhance the effectiveness of public administration, reform pensions and health care and to improve labor market and ...
Fortune 500 Global - http://www.fortune500global.com/
The latest news on Jobs, Financial Reform, AIG Bonuses, Climate ...
By Duane Shank
The latest news on Jobs, Financial Reform, AIG Bonuses, Climate Change, Terror Attack, US-Russia Nuclear Treaty, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Darfur-Sudan, Israel-Palestine, and Select Op-Eds. compiled by Duane Shank 02-03-2010 ...
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Obama chooses not to go to Madrid « Across the Pond
By eubeyer
The Lisbon Treaty was touted as a necessary reform that would increase the EU's international impact, yet in this case it appears that it may have helped led to the President Obama's decision to not attend. When President Obama attended ...
Across the Pond - http://iuwest.wordpress.com/
EU's Treaty Of Lisbon: A Landmark Reform Treaty
The Treaty of Lisbon, signed by the 27-nation Europe Union heads of state (Dec. 13, 2007), was drawn to replace the EU's original constitution which was ...
Constitutional Gordon Brown news | Search | Metro.co.uk
Lib Dems deal referendum blow22/10/2007 3:45Conservative hopes of inflicting defeat on Gordon Brown over a referendum on the EU Reform Treaty were dealt a ...
RTÉ Business: EU warns Greece despite budget backing
If the other EU states and the Commission are not satisfied with the ... other than budget reform, using powers given to it by the EU's Lisbon reform treaty ...
EU Endorses Greek Deficit Plans - NYTimes.com
This deserves support," EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner ... other than budget reform, using powers under the EU's Lisbon reform treaty for the ...