Thursday, 7 April 2011

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.
  EU exec wants Sweden fined over telecom data law
Reuters
The EU regulations, designed to help police gather evidence, should have been adopted by member states more than three years ago. Sweden had not changed its laws to meet the EU directive and recently postponed a vote on the legislation for another 12 ...
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Driving licences: Commission requests seven Member States to comply with new ...
IEWY News
If these Member States fail to inform the Commission within two months of what measures they have taken to ensure full compliance with the law, the Commission could refer the case to the EU Court of Justice. Two directives adopted in 2009 (Directive ...
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Standing Cloud Facilitates Privacy Law Compliance in the EuroCloud
Business Wire (press release)
Many observers believe that the US PATRIOT Act is in conflict with the requirements of both the EU Data Protection Directive and the UK's Data Protection Act. This concern can be exacerbated in cloud computing, where users cannot always control the ...
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EU to Implement Behavioral Ad Icon
ClickZ News
Designed to give European consumers choice around how their data is collected and used online, it is intended to satisfy new EU laws that come into force at the end of May. Following its introduction the icon will, in theory, appear alongside or within ...
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Make your electronics supply chain green—or else
EDN.com
Just a few years ago, the EU (European Union) imposed a green focus on the electronics supply chain with its ROHS (restriction-of-hazardous-substances) directive, which called for the removal of six materials deemed hazardous from electronics design. ...
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EDN.com
EU law: Commission acts to ensure that European legislation is fully and ...
EU News
See IP/11/422 Employment Equality (Italy): The Commission has referred Italy to the EU's Court of Justice concerning the transposition of the European directive, which prohibits discrimination in employment on the grounds of religion or belief, ...
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Protests against US Fatca tax rules gain pace with support of European Commission
Risk.net
The EU argues this will be a costly burden for European financial institutions and that there are already systems in place for exchanging information, such as the EU's Savings Taxation Directive. It is not just the EU financial industry that is ...
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