The Council of Ministers of the European Union approved a draft directive to that effect in June.

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More recently, Brussels has produced a draft directive on asylum seekers and is trying to come up with a common definition for refugees.

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Government officials say they continue to be uncomfortable with an EU draft directive which would force companies to disclose when they have been attacked.

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The draft directive imposes other new burdens, uncertainty being the worst.

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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.

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Managers are particularly exercised by a draft European directive which will impose limits on leverage and greater requirements for transparency, which could limit returns.

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Opening the debate, Austrian centre-right MEP Othmar Karas said there were still unresolved issues in Europe before a draft revised directive could be produced.

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The markets could also be dramatically altered by a draft European Union directive on market abuse.

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Mr. Schwartz decided to ignore the directive of the State Department and published his draft as he had written it.

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