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EU DATA PROTECTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EMPLOYER liability insurance policies will have to take account of changes to national workplace data protection regulations expected across the EU because of a wide-ranging and detailed public consultation launched by the European Commission.
Brussels has already concluded that there is a need to harmonise the widely divergent rules and practices amongst Member States, so legislation will inevitably be tabled.…
FISCALIS
BY ALAN OSBORN
A MAJOR new drive against tax fraud throughout the European Union (EU) has been signalled by the extension of the Fiscalis programme which funds co-operation between the tax authorities of the 15 Member States and the 10 eastern and southern European countries applying to join the EU.…
BROADBAND DEBATE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has signalled that it is prepared to raid Brussels’ public purse to create widespread broadband telecommunications networks across Europe, if private financing falls short of the task. Andrew Houghton, broadband project officer for the Commission’s directorate general for the information society, told the recent European Union Eurescom telecoms summit: “Where markets don’t work, subsidies to develop the infrastructure make sense.”…
COMPENSATION DIRECTIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is preparing to force its Member States to introduce a common system of public compensation for crimes against the person that are often covered by commercial personal accident injury policies and travel insurance packages.
A proposed directive on compensation to crime victims lays down a minimum standard of compensation for intentional violent crimes, including sexual, racist and xenophobic offences committed on a Member State’s territory.…
FRANCE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by the European Commission, which claims that Paris is breaking European Union (EU) public procurement rules governing the buying of goods and services by utilities.…
EU DATA PROTECTION
Keith Nuthall
EMPLOYERS will have to monitor changes to national workplace data protection regulations expected across the EU because of a wide-ranging and detailed public consultation launched by the European Commission.
Brussels has already concluded that there is a need to harmonise the widely divergent rules and practices amongst Member States, so legislation will inevitably be tabled.…
FRANCE ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government has been censured by the European Court of Justice for failing to write into its national laws a European Union (EU) directive, which would make it easier for lawyers to work across the EU.
Directive 98/5/EC on the practice of the profession of lawyer on a permanent basis in a Member State other than that in which the qualification was acquired imposes duties on national governments to register foreign EU lawyers and allow them to work on their territories.…
EEA REPORT
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has reached a negative conclusion about the environmental impact of aquaculture in European Union (EU) lakes and seas, saying that the “dramatic increase” in the size of the industry since 1970 had created “an increased pressure on water and ecological quality in those waters affected.”…
ATM AND SUSTAINABILITY
BY MARK ROWE
THE CURRENT ATM system is flawed in many ways – one key problem being the inherent inefficiencies of an airway system relying on ground-based navigational aids and routes set up around 50 years ago. ANSPs have a responsibility to ensure the environment – in the air and on the ground – is protected as much as possible from wasteful engine emissions of noxious substances.…
STEEL STATS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that the European Union (EU) continue collating statistics on the EU steel sector, but that it considerably reduces their scope from what was collected for the now defunct European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).…