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New EU rules could force miners to air their dirty laundry Deutsche Welle In 2004, the European Commission tightened the directives on transparency, but did not require detailed project and country-level reporting. The proposed amendments would force companies to give more detailed information and complement legislation ... See all stories on this topic »

Factbox: Main points of proposed EU oil and gas law Reuters It marks the first time the EU has proposed bloc-wide legislation on offshore oil and gas, although it complements an existing directive on environmental liability under which the polluter pays. The draft proposals aim to expand the reach of that ... See all stories on this topic »

We Need to up our Game Towards the New EU Directive on the Sexual Abuse of ... Huffington Post UK (blog) It won't be, at least not by virtue of the directive. In Italy it is obligatory because the Italian Parliament enacted a law making it so. The EU directive simply makes blocking discretionary, which is the status quo anyway. ... See all stories on this topic »

This Air Is Your Air Wall Street Journal US airlines may soon have to choose between violating European or American law. For passengers on trans-Atlantic flights, what the EU directive will mean is yet another surcharge—about €12 between Brussels and New York—on their tickets. ... See all stories on this topic »

EC sends formal notice over Blue Card for legal migrants MaltaToday The EU Blue Card Directive puts in place common and efficient rules that allow highly skilled people from outside Europe to come and work in our labour markets where there is a need,” the Commission said. The Directive establishes a fast-track ... See all stories on this topic »

Exemption to the rule Money Marketing The latest draft of the European Commission's markets in financial instruments directive, Mifid II, introduces a range of measures which seek to address issues raised by the financial crisis, such as improving investor protection, ... See all stories on this topic »

Europe gives UK two months to tighten up on environmental offences Click Green Failure by Member States to implement the Directives makes it impossible to have common minimum criminal law rules for serious breaches of EU legislation on the protection of the environment and against ship-source pollution. Such EU wide rules are ... See all stories on this topic »

EU Taking Germany, Austria, Greece To Court Over Services NASDAQ For the first time, the EU executive will ask the European Court of Justice to fine the countries for failing to fully comply with its Services Directive. "The three member states now concerned by the referral are the only ones that have not yet fully ... See all stories on this topic »

Child sex crimes: Parliament backs tougher penalties and EU-wide deletion of ... European Parliament (press release) The directive, already agreed by MEPs and home affairs ministers, will introduce EU-wide requirements on prevention, prosecution of offenders and protection for victims. Member States will have two years to transpose the new rules into national law. ... See all stories on this topic »

Details of all internet traffic should be logged, MEP says Out-Law.com Tiziano Motti MEP wants users' "traffic data", rather than the specific content of online communications, to be logged under expanded EU laws on data storage, according to a statement from the European People's Party (EPP) at the European Parliament. ... See all stories on this topic »

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