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	European Union directive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A European Union Directive is the (mutally binding) collective decision made by the member states, acting through their national Government Ministers in the Council of the European Union and the Parliament.
		The justification for a directive has to be the need for harmonisation to reduce market barriers and help to create a European single market.
		For example, in the UK most directives are brought in via statutory instruments but some directives create such major changes to the law that Parliament passes a separate Act to incorporate the changes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Union_directive (696 words)

	The UK Patent Office - About Us & Policies - Consultation Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This Directive should be implemented within a timescale similar to that for the implementation of the Directive on electronic commerce, since that Directive provides a harmonised framework of principles and provisions relevant inter alia to important parts of this Directive.
		This Directive should be without prejudice to the Member States' option to derogate from the exclusive public lending right in accordance with Article 5 of Directive 92/100/EEC.
		These technical means, in their technical functions, should incorporate privacy safeguards in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data(10).
	www.patent.gov.uk /about/consultations/eccopyright/annexb.htm (6092 words)

	EU Directive
		Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data
		This Directive shall apply to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automatic means, and to the processing otherwise than by automatic means of personal data which form part of a filing system or are intended to form part of a filing system.
		The Member States shall adopt suitable measures to ensure the full implementation of the' provisions of this Directive and shall in particular lay down the sanctions to be imposed in case of infringement of the provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive.
	www.cdt.org /privacy/eudirective/EU_Directive_.html (7263 words)

	LWN: Rally against EU IP Directive
		Coalition Urges Rejection of Controversial EU IP Directive An international coalition of civil liberties and consumer rights groups are holding a digital rights rally and press conference to oppose the controversial European Union Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive on the eve of its final vote in EU Parliament.
		Consumers and users from all over the EU are invited to attend the meeting in Strasbourg on 8 March to support upholding traditional civil liberties against the over-zealous enforcement of intellectual property rights.
		Directives of this importance must undergo adequate debate and consideration by the entire EU and not be rushed through on a "First Reading." This proposal should properly be sent into a "Second Reading" where its controversial provisions can be publicly considered.
	lwn.net /Articles/74041 (708 words)

	Regional Indicators: European Union (EU) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		EU members include: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
		Wind energy is playing a critical role in EU attempts to generate 22% of the region’s electricity from renewables and to reduce carbon emissions by 2020, according to the EU Renewables Directive (2001/77/EC).
		In October 2003, the EU Parliament and Council issued Directive 2003/87/EC on establishing an emissions trading scheme to be operational beginning January 2005.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/euro.html (1667 words)

	EU Software Patent Directive: Parliament's vs Council's Version
		This Directive should be without prejudice to the application of the competition rules, in particular Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty.
		The EU Council of Ministers is demonstrating that the concept of democracy is alien to the EU.
		In their public discourse, the promoters of the EU software patent directive proposal say they do not want patents on "pure software" but only on "computer-implemented inventions", by which they say they mean "washing machines and mobile phones".
	swpat.ffii.org /papers/europarl0309/cons0401/tab/index.en.html (3292 words)

	French Government Challenges EU Cosmetics Directive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		EU directives set forth standards and procedures that must then be implemented by EU member states through their own legislative systems.
		Since the 1990s, the EU has been considering both a cosmetic "testing ban" (to prohibit cosmetic testing on animals) and a "marketing ban" (to prohibit the marketing and sale of cosmetics tested on animals).
		The marketing ban amendment was to be incorporated into national legislation by EU member states in September 2004, but was delayed due to lack of support from the European Commission and Council of Ministers, who support a ban on animal testing if valid alternatives exist but who oppose a marketing ban on animal-tested cosmetics.
	www.hsus.org /animals_in_research/animals_in_research_news/french_government_challenges_eu_cosmetics_directive.html (709 words)

	TIA \| Equipment Certification Procedure: European Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The current EU Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (TTE) Directive (or legislation) went into force in 1992 and calls for the affixing of a CE mark to telecommunications equipment to demonstrate compliance with the minimum technical requirements of certification.
		Depending on the product, the current connected telecommunications equipment directive provides for four modules to be used: B, C, D, and H. None of these modules allows for a full manufacturer's self certification (module A), and the services of notified bodies have to be called upon in all cases, albeit to a different extent.
		Therefore the proposed directive stipulates that such equipment is to be subject to stringent conformity assessment procedures, which always require the approval of a notified body.
	www.tiaonline.org /policy/global/type/european_union.cfm?print=&dhtml=on (1702 words)

	EU Draft Directive on IP Enforcement
		directive proposes that almost all the enforcement measures available to IP owners in any member state must be available in all of them, and that the application of the criminal law to IP enforcement be made very much broader.
		The EU Software Directive allows reverse engineering for compatibility, while the EU Copyright Directive gives legal protection to any mechanism that protects copyright (even if it was primarily designed for another purpose, such as aftermarket control, and its copyright protection function is there only to avail of the legal protection).
		Directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment which will force member states to outlaw, by the end of 2007, the circumvention of EU recycling rules by companies who design products with chips to ensure that they cannot be recycled.
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /~rja14/draftdir.html (3482 words)

	Newsflash - EU Food Supplements Directive Updates! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		EU legislation may have a profound impact on the availability of a wide range of dietary supplements in the future, particularly traditional botanical medicines found outside of Europe and not yet in the European marketplace.
		The Directives that have become law or are about to become law among EU Member States (recently expanded from 15 to 25 countries) are part of a comprehensive plan for the regulation of dietary supplements, including botanical medicines.
		The Directive is presented as the first part of a plan for the comprehensive regulation of food supplements at the EU level and all the indications are that once this model is in place in the EU it will be exported worldwide via Codex Alimentarius.
	www.thenhf.com /newsflash_17.htm (9465 words)

	THE EU DATA PROTECTION DIRECTIVE AND U (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		(12) Under the Directive, either the person concerned has their consent for the processing, or the processing is necessary to carry out a contract to which the person involved is a party, or to carry out pre-contractual measures undertaken at the request of the person.
		(21) The EU Directive encourages the establishment of these enforcement agencies in third countries, as well, as a means of providing the "adequate" protection needed to receive data from the EU.
		There are three models of data protection that the U.S. could possibly use to comply with EU law: the legislative model, the industry standards model and the contract model Of the three, the contract model seems most likely to work.
	gsulaw.gsu.edu /lawand/papers/sp97/rogers.html (3989 words)

	LLRX -- CongressLine: EU Directive 95/46 - Privacy 101
		The Directive establishes new standards for privacy protection and EU member nations were to enact conforming legislation within three years of its passage.
		Although the EU is no longer insisting on its earlier requirement of government regulation, the current system of self-regulation must pass muster.
		As one of the EU negotiators remarked, a trade war is in nobody's interest and ultimately, the market must gain the confidence of the consumer in order for electronic commerce to be a success.
	www.llrx.com /congress/101598.htm (901 words)

	FIPR - The EU Copyright Directive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It should be made clear that all rightholders recognised by this Directive should have an exclusive right to make available to the public copyright works or any other subject-matter by way of interactive on-demand transmissions.
		(7) Council Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission (OJ L 248, 6.10.1993, p.
		(9) Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases (OJ L 77, 27.3.1996, p.
	www.fipr.org /copyright/eucd.html (6307 words)

	EU Directive - correspondence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the Foresight Autumn 2000 newsletter, we reported on plans to force the UK in line with a new EU directive, which would have the effect of restricting the sale of vitamin and mineral food supplements in the UK to small quantities of a limited list of different supplements, produced synthetically.
		I understand that the EU have compiled a list and if the health supplement you want is not on it then you will not be able to buy it.
		I also understand that in many cases the EU plan to only allow chemical versions of vitamins and rninerals and that they have compiled a list and if the health supplement you want is not on it then you will not be able to buy it.
	www.foresight-preconception.org.uk /news-views/frames/EUDirective-nf.html (1042 words)

	FIPR - Intellectual property and the public domain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The UK Government is in the process of implementing the Directive, which came into force in June 2001 and was supposed to be introduced into national law in EU member states by 22 December 2002.
		The directive follows heavy lobbying by the film, television and record industries and similar bodies, who are concerned about the effect of digital technologies on their ability to profit from intellectual property rights.
		The questions are about the way in which the UK Government is proposing to interpret the Directive and whether it should implement certain "opt outs" that were provided for in the Directive but which do not appear in the draft text for the statutory instrument.
	www.fipr.org /copyright/eucd_intro.html (340 words)

	EU directive 'could spark patent war' - ZDNet UK News
		The European Parliament recently voted to approve the Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions, but with a series of amendments designed to limit the ways in which software can be patented.
		The patents directive will next return to the European Commission for review, followed by votes in Parliament and the Council of Ministers, after which, if approved, it will be implemented in the national laws of EU member states.
		It is not EU which is out of step.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /business/legal/0,39020651,39116895,00.htm (798 words)

	IP Justice: CODE Campaign for an Open Digital Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		EU Member States are given 24 months in which to adopt the Directive into their own national laws.
		While there remained a number of troubling provisions in the final directive passed by the EU Parliament, several of the most dangerous, like measures that would have forbidden Europeans from bypassing technological restrictions such as RFID tags used to prevent infringement and criminal penalties, were removed from the directive's final version.
		The directive passed in the EU Plenary currently set on 9 March 2004 and it was approved by the Council on 11 March 2004.
	www.ipjustice.org /CODE (1076 words)

	IP Justice: Media Release - Strasbourg Artists and Consumers Rally for Digital Rights 2004
		An international coalition of civil liberties and consumer rights groups are holding a digital rights rally and press conference to oppose the controversial European Union Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive on the eve of its final vote in EU Parliament.
		The meeting is set for 8 March, 2004 in Strasbourg, France, where a broad coalition will urge EU Members of Parliament to reject the controversial directive due to its excessive treatment of users and consumers for minor and non-commercial infringements.
		Consumers oppose this directive because it treats them as if they were large commercial counterfeiters – even for a single, unintentional, non-commercial infringement.
	www.ipjustice.org /CODE/release20040302_en.shtml (739 words)

	Defra, UK - Environmental Protection - Sustainable Energy: Energy Efficiency
		This will help the EU to meet its climate change objectives under the Kyoto Protocol commitments as well as improve the energy performance of new and existing buildings.
		Considerable amendments were made to the text of the Directive since the publication of the original proposal in May 2001.
		As the co-decision procedure applies to this Directive, it was passed to the European Parliament (EP) for a Second Reading.
	www.defra.gov.uk /environment/energy/internat/ecbuildings.htm (781 words)

	LWN: Text of the proposed EU patent directive
		Member States shall ensure that, wherever the use of a patented technique is needed for a significant purpose such as ensuring conversion of the conventions used in two different computer systems or networks so as to allow communication and exchange of data content between them, such use is not considered to be a patent infringement.
		The EU said it wanted a directive that could patent a new computer-controlled steel mill (if it makes better steel), or a technically superior computerised device like a mobile phone, but not 'pure' software doing routine data processing.
		Yes, but as I see it, the directive also ensures that red hat can distribute up2date (in europe, of course) as long as it has nothing to do with the hardware that is patented.
	lwn.net /Articles/50722 (1620 words)

	EU VAT Directive from OCRA
		The effect of this directive is to implement the imposition of VAT in on Internet delivered information or services within the EU.
		An option for Non-EU vendors lacking an EU subsidiary or a fiscally inconvenient EU subsidiary is to establish a subsidiary in a Member State where VAT is low or there exists other fiscal or operational advantages.
		The establishment of a subsidiary within the EU circumvents the need to clarify the location of each customer as local VAT regulations would apply and the subsidiary would be regarded as a normal EU enterprise.
	www.ocra.com /services/eu_vat.asp (1060 words)

	Concerns Regarding the EU Data Directive
		Interpreted literally, the EU directive means that almost all publication on the Internet is illegal.
		The directive is so generally worded, that it actually applies to almost all human activity, since almost all human activity to some extent involves personal data in computers or on paper.
		Thus, the directive makes almost all human activity illegal, unless it is done according to the restrictive rules of the directive.
	dsv.su.se /jpalme/society/eu-data-directive-revision.html (570 words)

	Royal Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The European Union Savings Tax directive which goes into effect next month will target EU citizens who are have stashed funds in jurisdictions such as Guernsey and Jersey.
		The directive, which is designed to ensure that funds are subject to taxation once they return to their home country, is part of a broader initiative to curtail money-laundering, to track the proceeds of drug-dealing and identify the source of money used to fund terrorism.
		Bermuda is the only British Overseas Territory not included in the list of EU countries and their Dependent Territories subject to the directive.
	www.theroyalgazette.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050606/BUSINESS/106060119 (427 words)

	CNN.com - Sci-Tech - EU approves digital copyright directive - April 11, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In an attempt to balance the rights of both copyright owners and users of copyrighted material, the EU directive also allows for private copying of such material for personal use, the EU said.
		The EU member states now have 18 months to ratify or reject the directive, the EU said.
		The directive has been the subject of intense lobbying, with some of the music industry's heaviest hitters, including former Beatles producer George Martin, personally showing up to testify to the European Parliament before its vote in February.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/TECH/industry/04/11/eu.copyright.directive.idg (277 words)

	Thelen Reid Report No. 31 - Recent developments in finalizing the US/EU safe harbor program for the EU data directive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Significantly, it prohibits entities in the EU from exchanging data with entities located in other countries (including the United States) that do not provide what the EU considers an "adequate" level of data protection.
		Issues that remain to be resolved include, how US companies can comply with the Directive during the interim period between the signing of the agreement and its implementation, and what effect existing US privacy statutes will be given as part of the safe harbor.
		The EU and US appear closer than ever to achieving an agreement on the safe harbor principles which do allow personal data exchange between the two jurisdictions, however many issues remain to be resolved.
	www.thelenreid.com /articles/report/rep31_idx.htm (807 words)

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