Saturday, 2 July 2011

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.
Environmental regulation crucial to shale gas in EU
Petroleum Economist
However, a European company would be unlikely to make a significant investment in an international energy project without carefully considering the jurisdiction's environmental laws and regulations. It would make no more sense for investors in EU ...
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Title deeds campaign gathers pace
Cyprus Mail
... which said: “The practice of withholding title deeds or legal ownership of properties which have been paid for in full by the purchasers is an infringement of EU directive 2005/29/EC and CypriotLaws 103 (I)/2007 which transposes it. ...
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90% of Visitors to EU Cookie Law Site Don't Opt-in [Chart]
Business 2 Community
On May 25 all the countries within the European Union were supposed to enact a directiverequiring anyone doing business in the region to get opt-in permission to track consumers online. Already the United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office ...
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Peer review needed to prevent regulatory arbitrage, says AMF
Risk.net
If it's not sufficient because the laws are different – because the Dodd-Frank Act is different to theEuropean market infrastructure regulation (Emir) or the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive(Mifid) – then we need to change those laws to be ...
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Deadline day
Fundweb
After a process which started back in March 2008, today finally marks the deadline when EU member states have to pass the new Ucits IV directive into their nationallaws. Hardly a lengthy process then. First the good news: The UK is ready, ...
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The Data Retention Directive Is Flawed for Europe
EurActiv
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Madrid and London, the European Union wanted to reinforce data retention requirements to better combat acts of terrorism. While I strongly support providing our law enforcement and other government agencies ...
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