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Solar panels to be included in recast WEEE Directive Energy and Environmental Management (EAEM) Magazine This non-binding target is intended to provide an important staging point as the UK strives to significantly increase its traditionally low battery recycling rate to the statutory 25% target set for 2012 under the EU Batteries Directive. ... See all stories on this topic » Energy and Environmental Management (EAEM) Magazine

The EU's conservative and cautious approach Jakarta Post Indonesians will eventually question how these EU regulations and directives as well as partnerships will benefi t not only the EU but also Indonesia. The writer is a researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies and a lecturer at ... See all stories on this topic »

Ministers back moderate ambitions on electronic waste EurActiv Meeting in Brussels on 14 March, EU environment ministers reached a political agreement on the recast of an EU directive on Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), proposed by the Commission in 2008. The EU executive's original proposal ... See all stories on this topic »

Europe's Cookie-Cutting Plan MIT Technology Review On May 25, a new European Union directive on the use of cookies will come into force. The directive (actually an amendment to the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive of 2002) asks European Union member states to come up with legislation ... See all stories on this topic »

Nurses say agency cut in breach of EU law Irish Health The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has said the newly-adopted lower rates for agency nurses working for the HSE will be in breach of an EU directive due to be adopted later this year. It says this directive provides for agency nurses to ... See all stories on this topic »

US Oilseed Growers Protest EU Biofuel Requirement Domestic Fuel Oilseed growers, led by the American Soybean Association (ASA), have raised concerns with US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and US Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk over the European Union's (EU) Renewable Energy Directive ... See all stories on this topic »

EU orders Ryanair to get an email address for customers to complain Daily Mail Now, the European Commission has said the airline is in breach of EU directives that cover e-commerce and internet-based companies. In a letter, Michel Barnier, the Commissioner responsible for the internal market and services, states that the ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

WORKING TIME DIRECTIVE 2ND-PHASE CONSULTATION OF THE SOCIAL ... CEP | Kaiser-Joseph-Straße 266 | 79098 Freiburg | Germany | Telephone +49 (0)761 38693-105 | www.cep.eu. 1. EU Communication. WORKING TIME DIRECTIVE ... www.cep.eu/.../PB_Working_Time_Directive_2nd-phase.pdf