New EU legislation will ban the use of battery cages for egg-laying hens from 2012.
All insured depositors in all banks will be fully protected in accordance with the relevant EU legislation.
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It follows EU legislation to protect the marine environment which bans the dumping of waste at sea.
The figures suggest other member states are generally more comfortable with EU legislation than the UK, he said.
Compliance with thousands of pages of EU legislation is a textbook for modernisation.
But overall, she said, the package would improve EU legislation on banking and represented "a move towards a global standard".
She added that the new regulation also contradicts existing EU legislation by focussing on the court in the consumer's country.
Most EU legislation results from negotiations between the Council and Parliament, and on most issues they have an equal say.
Mr Cameron's coalition government is now studying areas of EU legislation where the UK may be able to claw back powers.
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Norway has adopted three-quarters of EU legislation amounting to 6, 000 legislative acts.
Mr Dalli has been preparing tough new EU legislation - a reform of the Tobacco Products Directive - to make smoking less attractive.
The company also is challenging German policy dictating what can be sold and where, saying the rules are out of sync with EU legislation.
British Labour MEP Linda McAvan was more critical, and disagreed with Commissioner Dalli's claim that ethical considerations were outside of the scope of EU legislation.
If Lisbon comes into force, the parliament will be the equal of the council in almost all EU legislation, gaining new rights over, for example, farm subsidies, fisheries, asylum and immigration.
However, vaccination of cattle against TB is currently prohibited by EU legislation, mainly because BCG vaccination of cattle can interfere with the tuberculin skin test, the main diagnostic test for TB.
And the European Scrutiny Committee pauses from its normal scrutiny of EU legislation to quiz senior figures from the BBC on the coverage of the European Scrutiny system in the Commons (at 2.30pm).
The bonus caps are being introduced as part of EU legislation to ensure banks carry adequate capital cushions in line with the so-called Basel accords agreed in the Swiss city by international banking supervisors.
True, the parliament has powers over EU legislation that will be further increased if the Lisbon treaty is ratified, but for the most part its loonier fringes can be safely ignored by their saner colleagues.
And Sir Jon Cunliffe, UK Permanent Representative to the EU, a man high in eurosceptic demonology, is before the European Scrutiny Committee, as it continues its inquiry into the Commons' system for scrutinising EU legislation, at 4.30pm.
For the entire thrust of EU corporate tax legislation is to encourage the development of the Single Market.
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EU-related legislation the would-be members are enacting, but on the quality of their implementation of law and their administration.
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The assets of citizens or groups inside the Union have not been immediately frozen because there is no EU-wide legislation yet for this.
The BBC's Chris Morris in Strasbourg says some critics regard the idea of EU-wide legislation on the gender issue as patronising and counter-productive.
Labour is also likely to give up Britain's veto rights to EU-proposed legislation and move towards majority voting in some areas, a form of decision-making favored by the rest of Europe.
On July 6th the European Parliament passed a resolution calling for EU-wide legislation stipulating that at least 40% of seats on listed companies' supervisory boards will be reserved for women by 2020.
The role of economic policeman seems likely to change the character of the institution that historically set the EU agenda for new legislation, despite its historical role in ensuring implementation of EU laws.
The EU has introduced similar legislation, and a growing number of companies will only buy wood that is demonstrably legal and sustainably harvested.
The European Commission will eventually consider the list drawn up by the EU committee and develop legislation which will be voted on by member states.
One of its chief concerns is to ease the regulatory burden on small businesses, especially the Working Time Directive and other EU labour and welfare legislation.
They believe the legislation breaches EU laws on free trade.
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