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Europe's Single Market Isn't a Free Market Wall Street Journal The guiding principle in these industries has been "mutual recognition," or regulatorycompetition. EU directives required some minimal harmonization of EU law but also banned restrictive regulation in some countries. This meant, for example, ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

London lobbies EU to relax air quality laws Energy and Environmental Management (EAEM) Magazine They deny that they are lobbying for a weakening EU air quality standards. “We simply want to have the revised directive to be more flexible in terms of recognising the specific features of some territories of the European Union and to recognise the ... See all stories on this topic » Energy and Environmental Management (EAEM) Magazine

EU Court Rules US Airlines Must Pay for Carbon Emissions Environment News Service Claiming the EU measures impose a form of tax on fuel consumption, in 2009, the airlines and their trade association, Airlines for America, challenged the legality of measures in the UK transposing the EU's Aviation Directive into UK law. ... See all stories on this topic » Environment News Service

ACT warns of risks from regulation in 2012 Risk.net The combined effect of the fourth capital requirements directive – the European Union's take on Basel III – and the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (Emir), which requires standardised over-the-counter derivatives to be cleared through central... See all stories on this topic » Risk.net

CRD 4: Out of the frying pan and into the fire for pension funds FOW magazine ... costs of the European markets and infrastructure regulation (Emir), pensions funds will be hit, indirectly, by the Capital Requirements Directive 4 (CRD 4). Although Emir is still not finalised – negotiations between the European Commission (EC), ... See all stories on this topic »