) According to the CIA, the European Union was added because the EU " continues to accrue more nation-like characteristics for itself ".

According to the EU, the aim of the directive is to provide greater monitoring and control of alternative investment funds.

According to the Bologna statistics of the European Union, Italian is spoken as a mother tongue by 65 million people in the EU ( 13 % of the EU population ), mainly in Italy, and as a second language by 14 million ( 3 %).

According to the official Bulgarian sources, in the period between 2000 to 2006 some 30 000 Macedonian citizens applied for Bulgarian citizenship, attracted by the Bulgaria's recent positive development and the opportunity to get European Union passports after Bulgaria joined EU on the beginning of 2007.

According to a recent report by the European Commission, Slovakia ( along with some other Central and Eastern European economies ) is low down on the list of EU states in the area of innovation ( Slovakia ranks 22nd ).

According to the Central Statistical Office of Poland, In 2011 the Polish economic growth rate was 4. 3 %, which was the best result in EU.

* According to a 2010 study published in the Brussels newspaper L ' Anglophone, the tax burden for typical workers in Central and Eastern Europe's " flat tax " countries is slightly higher ( 40. 3 % versus 40. 2 % of the total cost of employment ) than that of the progressive systems elsewhere in the EU.

According to a Eurobarometer survey of EU citizens, Germans are most sceptical about the removal of the one-and two-cent coins from complete circulation in the eurozone, however on average there is a majority for their removal ( 58 % for the one cent coin and 52 % for the two cent coin in 2005 ).

According to the draft project, the Heysel area lies on a direct subway line connecting it to the European quarter and is to host a new branch of the European school, where EU officials educate their children in their native tongues.

According to the EU, this is the first serious reform of sugar under the CAP for 40 years.

In January 2007 Siemens was fined € 396 million by the European Commission for price fixing in EU electricity markets through a cartel involving 11 companies, among which ABB, Alstom, Fuji, Hitachi Japan, AE Power Systems, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Schneider, Areva, Toshiba and VA Tech According to the Commission, " between 1988 and 2004, the companies rigged bids for procurement contracts, fixed prices, allocated projects to each other, shared markets and exchanged commercially important and confidential information.

According to 2005 EU figures, around one million animals are used every year in Europe in toxicology tests ; which are about 10 % of all procedures.

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According to the relevant EU legislation, only those cheeses produced in a traditional way in some areas of Greece ( mainland and the island of Lesbos ), and made from sheep milk, or from a mixture of sheep and goats ’ milk ( up to 30 %) of the same area, may bear the name " feta ".

According to the Agency, the Czech Republic was in 2010 the only EU country to employ a sexual arousal test, which the Agency said could violate the European Convention on Human Rights.

According to this principle, the EU may only act ( i. e. make laws ) where action of individual countries is insufficient.

According to an Irish Times editorial, " how someone who had spent several years around an EU Council of Ministers ' table could not know that is extraordinary ".

According to the government this was done as the EU would not easily permit direct government investment in the airline.

According to the European Community ( now the EU ) Directive 80 / 181 / EEC issued on December 20, 1979, the European Union would have only allowed dual-unit labels to appear on products until December 31, 2009, but problems experienced during metrication efforts in the UK forced the EU to abandon this deadline.

According to Mamudu and Studlar, since the adoption of the FCTC in 2003, " shared sovereignty through multilevel governance has become the norm in the tobacco control policy area for EU members, including having one international organization negotiate within the context of another.

According to the Brussels-based newspaper EU Reporter on 3 April 2006, " another high-level source, a former KGB operative in London, has confirmed the story.

According to proposals made in 2009 by the Swedish EU presidency, the High Representative will control the staffing and budget of the EEAS, and propose the size of budget to be allocated.

According to the Constitution, the President has ultimate authority over foreign policy, while Congress is tasked with reviewing and considering all diplomatic nominations and international treaties, as well as legislation relating to Brazilian foreign policy.

According to early Muslim historians, towns that surrendered without resistance and made treaties with the Muslims gave the Muslims permission to take their churches and synagogues.

According to the preamble in The Law of treaties, treaties are a source of international law.

According to present doctrine, that of " treaty monism ", treaties are in the Dutch legal system in principle self-executing ; no special transformation is needed by implementing special law, as in countries with a " dualistic " system ( such as the United Kingdom ).

According to the peace treaties the provinces were to retain its old laws and privileges, and was initially administered as a dominion.

According to the constitution, relations between Karakalpakstan and Uzbekistan are " regulated by treaties and agreements " and any disputes are " settled by way of reconciliation ".

According to the Romanian side, in the peace treaties of 1918 and 1920 ( after WWI ), the isle was considered part of Romania, and it was not mentioned in the 1947 border-changing treaty between Romania and the Soviet Union.

According to the articles of these treaties, the value of US $ was prescribed as 35 US dollars to one troy ounce of pure gold.

According to the treaties, the maximum number of members in the Parliament is 732.

According to uniting treaties between SNK and ED this hasn't any formal chairman.

According to the Velasco Administration, the treaty, having been signed under Peruvian military occupation of Ecuadorian soil, was illegal and contrary to Panamerican treaties that outlawed any treaty signed under the threat of force.

According to MAI supporter Sergio Marchi, one of the main purposes of the agreement was to eliminate the " patchwork " of investment rules enshrined in the then-1300 + bilateral investment treaties.

According to these treaties, the Banat region was divided between Romania, Kingdom of SCS, and Hungary, while Bačka and Baranja were divided between the Kingdom of SCS and Hungary.

According to the Bylaws of the ICUU, Emerging Groups are " applicants that are deemed to be reasonable prospects for membership, but do not fulfil the conditions of either Provisional membership or Full Membership ".

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year ending 2010, the party had a membership of 16232, up from 15, 097 in 2008 and 9, 450 in 2003.

According to essentialism, a member of a specific group may possess other characteristics that are neither needed to establish its membership nor preclude its membership, but that essences do not simply reflect ways of grouping objects ; they also result in properties of the object, as the object can be subjugated to smaller contexts.

According to research in the social sciences, membership in the deaf community is a matter of culturally determined behaviors and not of medical diagnosis.

According to press reports his membership lapsed in 2006.

According to Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw, the organization's " membership list ... reads like a Who's Who of early Nazi sympathizers and leading figures in Munich ", including Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Julius Lehmann, Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart and Karl Harrer.

According to Terri McLean, author of New Harmonies, old-guard churches ( United Methodist is given as an example ) of the late 1990s were experiencing a rapid decline in membership and were under threat of disbandment within the next decade, a trend that has been going on since the 1980s.

According to Donald Noel, a sociologist who developed a theory on the origin of ethnic stratification, ethnic stratification is a " system of stratification wherein some relatively fixed group membership ( e. g., race, religion, or nationality ) is utilized as a major criterion for assigning social positions ".

According to Cheng Li of the Brookings Institution, four additional individuals have more or less secured their membership in the next PSC: Vice Premier Wang Qishan, Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang, Organization Department head Li Yuanchao, and Propaganda Department head Liu Yunshan.

According to Dick Hebdige, members of a subculture often signal their membership through a distinctive and symbolic use of style, which includes fashions, mannerisms, and argot.

According to the biography of Zhou, however, Zhou told others that Zhang ’ s application was opposed by Stalin, as he thought Zhang's status as a warlord made him a poor candidate for CPC membership.

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year ending December 31, 2009, the party had an income of about £ 90, 230 that year, an expenditure of £ 61, 165 and a membership of 1, 072.

According to the IFPI, " any company, firm or person producing sound recordings or music videos which are made available to the public in reasonable quantities is eligible for membership of IFPI ", though the company does not specify what " reasonable quantities " actually means.

According to Staff's calculations such huge membership numbers would mean that the AUF had to recruit several thousand members each year.

According to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Magen David Adom was boycotted by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which refused to grant the organization membership because " it was … argued that having an emblem used by only one country was contrary to the principles of universality.

According to " National Assembly Duties Act ," the National Assembly could amend the constitution with a two-thirds majority, with at least three-quarters membership present.

According to the Statistical Yearbook of the Church, the Catholic Church's worldwide recorded membership at the end of 2005 was 1, 114, 966, 000.

According to the Society's bylaws, membership may be refused to applicants whose conduct is deemed detrimental to the Society ; in 1982, the bylaws were amended explicitly to exclude " any practice or application of freezing deceased persons in the anticipation of their reanimation ," over the objections of some members who were cryonicists such as Jerry Leaf.

According to the literature of the OTS, the central authority was the Synarchy of the Temple, whose membership was secret.

According to self-designated members of the Society, “ you may already be a member .” The anarchic nature of the Society means that membership is left open-ended and anyone may sponsor an event, though not every idea pitched garners attendance by members.

According to the official Union web site, current membership ( 2003 ) includes 4971 members in 69 congregations.

According to KKE's archives, the " Old Central Committee " had been denounced for its stance on the war issue ; today KKE claims that the majority of the party membership had not followed the decision of being neutral in case of an invasion.