An EU directive, incorporated into UK law, limits the amount of time that most people work to 48 hours a week.
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Mr Blair also insisted the UK had made progress over the EU directive on a new savings tax.
The spokesperson refuted the view that the plant would have helped farmers deal with an EU directive on nitrates.
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Whatever happens though the requirement on homes to be energy assessed has to happen - it is, after all, an EU directive.
And chickens across Europe will breathe more easily after the implementation of an EU directive banning traditional battery cages for egg-producing hens.
The EU directive was drawn up in 1994 but will not come into force in all the member states until agreed tests are officially published.
The UK has until 2013 to implement new regulations set by an EU directive aiming to strengthen legislation and give greater protection to animals across Europe.
He also urges ministers to resist any attempts by power generators to keep open old coal stations which are due to close under an EU directive on air pollution.
To opt out of certain laws, such as the EU directive on working hours, "is legally difficult and would disturb a premise of the single market, " he said.
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And an EU directive from October 2001 maintains that in matters of sex discrimination over pay the onus is on the employer to prove itself free of discrimination, not the other way round.
"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.
Although the EU Directive is a step forward in terms of offering more choice and greater accessibility, the healthcare systems of the 27 countries involved are of differing sophistication and there are a lot of details to be clarified.
Mr Lewis said that although the changes had been brought in because of an EU directive, the union was arguing for a "fairer balance to be struck" between control measures and ensuring that cattle farming businesses can be run.
One of the oddities of the British debate about the working time directive is that the British could opt out of it for hospitals, and the commission knows that, but cannot say this in public because it cannot be seen encouraging a member government to opt out of an EU directive.
Although no changes to the current regime on religious slaughter are mooted in a new EU directive on animal welfare, due to come into force in January 2013, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister James Paice has noted that "member states can impose stricter rules in relation to religious slaughter if they wish".
Environment tries to ensure everyone follows the rules of the EU Habitats Directive and protects the environment.
Speaker William Hay explained that clause 104 of the bill was believed to be incompatible with the EU weapons directive.
An unconfirmed report from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) indicated it was the result of a European Union (EU) directive.
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Cornwall gave its final approval to the project in November, but opponents hope to use the EU Habitats Directive to stop the project.
Government officials say they continue to be uncomfortable with an EU draft directive which would force companies to disclose when they have been attacked.
Network Rail has insisted it is complying with an EU safety directive and that the mast meets guidelines for power output, frequency and safety.
"The court finds that the (EU) directive does not oblige the member states themselves to fund the rights to old age benefits, " it said in a statement.
That is what could be on the cards in a few weeks time following a complaint to Europe over an alleged breach of the EU Habitats Directive.
The case rests on whether the government should have done more to protect these workers' pensions under the terms of the EU Insolvency Directive, which was introduced in 1983.
The UK is pushing businesses to be ready for this, reports BBC News, as a new EU privacy directive is supposed to be going into effect come May 25.
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PlymWIN claimed the planning permission breached the EU Habitats Directive because it did not carry out the appropriate assessment for a project that could significantly affect a European site of importance.
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MEPs asked whether this agreement was in line with the EU Savings Tax Directive, which allows the EU to negotiate such agreements en masse, rather than in bilateral agreements by individual countries.
Rights of access, rectification and erasure all exist under our current rules, the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive.
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Sooner or later, the policies motivating the EU Data Protection Directive will prove to be counter-productive and regressive.
He also said an EU money laundering directive would make a real difference.
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