The European Court of Justice annulled a European Commission directive banning tobacco advertising in sport.
The European Commission has issued a directive requiring common standards, which promises deliverance from such nonsense.
The Commission wants a new directive, less strict - whilst opinion in the Parliament is for more stringent health and safety measures.
Their gist: Microsoft has not only fully obeyed, but gone beyond a 2004 European Commission anti-trust directive to share its technical information with rivals.
Their gist: Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) has not only fully obeyed, but gone beyond a 2004 European Commission anti-trust directive to share its technical information with rivals.
It was not, they stressed, a directive to a commission that the coalition government itself set up.
The commission has since drafted a directive that penalises dilatory and double-charging banks.
The European Commission said its new mortgages directive would prevent any repeat of reckless home loan lending of the past.
As part of the agreement, the European Commission will revise its Capital Requirements Directive, which sets out rules on capital and liquidity.
This is clear in Europe, where a directive from the European Commission tells the courts to strike out any unreasonable contractual obligation on a consumer if he has not freely negotiated it.
The Commission will change the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive and the 1998 Fuel Quality Directive.
In addition, the directive spells out how the commission sees the further opening of the postal market.
The commission, which aims to make the directive more consumer-friendly, laid out more than a dozen issues for possible reform in a"Green Paper"last year.
The tide started to turn in 1985, when the European Commission passed a"product liability"directive, since adopted as law by all of the European Community member states.
The commission, which aims to make the directive more consumer-friendly, last year laid out in a Green Paper more than a dozen issues for possible reform.
The tide started to turn in 1985, when the European Commission passed a "product liability" directive, since adopted as law by all the member states of the European Community.
The launch of the video, which is being translated into Portuguese, French and Dutch for wider distribution, coincides with expectation that the European Commission will shortly produce a new draft directive on the transport of animals.
In Europe a new directive has go through the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers.
On 6th June 2012 the European Commission finally published its formal proposal for a directive for EU-wide rules for bank recovery and resolution.
MEPs have called on the Commission to examine whether the scope of the Seveso Directive should be extended to include offshore oil exploration, pipelines and certain nanomaterials.
The Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive - put forward by the European Commission - would force banks to build up a pot of money to ensure that savers are protected in struggling times.
They have not forgotten that, a few years later, the European Commission circumvented their opt-out by calling a directive to limit the hours employees may work a health-and-safety measure, not a social one.
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Infringement cases against employers who violate the directive can also be brought by the European Commission or national governments.
"The Directive may already be obsolete, " admitted one commission official who asked not to be identified.
But the European Commission says the reduction on energy saving products breaches the VAT directive.
Such reforms are being promoted by the commission under its Lisbon agenda, including its much-abused directive to liberalise trade in services.
"Had Mr Byrne and the European Commission shown similar respect for legal detail, their original EU directive on tobacco advertising would not have been annulled by the European Court of Justice, " the FIA statement said.
The report has been written ahead of a forthcoming green paper by the European Commission - due to be published in December - on revising the directive.
The European Commission meanwhile is conducting a review of the economic impact of the trademark directive which could lead to reform.
And the European Commission says both deals may be illegal under the EU savings-tax directive of 2005, because they let offshore-account holders pay a lower rate of withholding tax without having to reveal their identities.
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