Thursday, 28 April 2011

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.
Swiss fund industry comes to terms with European rulebook
HedgeWeek
“Our legislation may have to be adapted for that, but we don't know yet whether there should be a different chapter of the law for those managers who want to opt into the AIFM directive. “Because we are not within the European Union, we could think ...
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German Lawmakers Say Data Retention Directive May Be Illegal
PCWorld
A report from the Bundestag's Working Group on data retention said that it would be impossible to rephrase the directive to make it compatible with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. The legal experts said that the law is disproportionate in the ...
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EU court: Italy can't jail illegal migrants who refuse to leave
Monsters and Critics.com
... Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right administration introduced a law in 2009 making illegal overstay in the country a crime punishable by one to four years in prison. But jailing migrants contradicts an EU directive on repatriation, ...
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Non-EU seasonal workers could get special work permits
European Voice
The Parliament's committee on civil liberties has also begun considering a draft directive proposed by the Commission in July on highly-skilled workers from outside the EU whose employers are seeking to transfer them to the EU. The draft legislation on ...
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Law in brief
Warsaw Voice
Those exposing other people to serious illness or injury by ignoring environmental protectionregulations are liable to a prison term of up to 10 years. The introduction of tougher penalties for polluters is the result of a European Union directive ...
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Growing pressure to change EU biofuel policy
European Voice
But since the European Union agreed laws to promote biofuel, doubts have sprouted like weeds. Now it looks increasingly likely that the EU will have to rewrite bioenergy laws to guard against their unintended consequences. ...
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Claiming Water Prevents Dehydration Could Land You in Jail!
The Healthier Life
Under these laws (Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive or THMPD), a traditional herbal medicine must be able to prove that it's been used for 30 years in the European Union (EU) – or 15 years in the EU and 15 years elsewhere – for it to be ...
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USA PATRIOT Act: The myth of a secure European cloud?
ZDNet (blog)
This applies to every other EEA member state as the EU 'Data Protection Directive' 95/46/EUincludes common principles which have been implemented in legislation of each subscribing European country. During the course of the year researching this area, ...
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ENVIRON Explains new RoHS2 Scope, Obligations on Distributors and Sample ...
PR Web (press release)
The new RoHS Directive (known as RoHS2) will become EU law when it is published in the EUOfficial Journal (OJEC) in June 2011, and the new Member State RoHS2 Regulations will take effect 18 months later. But presentations at the TechAmerica workshops ...
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