In 2010, EU countries accounted for 32. 1 percent of Armenia ’ s foreign trade.

Armenian exports to EU countries have skyrocketed by 65. 9 percent, making up more than half of all 2010 January to September exports.

Bulgaria also has the lowest personal and corporate income tax rates in the EU, as well as the second lowest public debt of all European Union member states at 16. 2 % of GDP in 2010.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that the spectrum is broad in the EU, with the UK coming closest to the US system ( Reifner et al., 2003 ; Gerhardt, 2009 ; Frade, 2010 ).

By the time EU accession negotiations were completed on 30 June 2010, Croatian legislation was fully harmonised with the Community acquis.

Estimated GDP per capita in purchasing power parity ( PPP ) in 2010 was around USD 19, 754 or 63. 3 % of the EU average for the same year.

The EU ended its mission to reform the country's security forces, EU SSR Guinea-Bissau, on 4 August 2010, a risk that may further embolden powerful generals and drug traffickers in the army and elsewhere.

The EU decided to ban illegal timber on July 2010.

In 2008 the resulting EU Directive 2008 / 51 / EC provided the current common basis for national laws affecting hunters, target shooters and collectors, and member states were to have complied with it by 28 July 2010.

In December 2010 EU ministers in Brussels have voted Prague, Czech Republic as the headquarters of the Galileo project.

In December 2010 EU ministers in Brussels have voted Prague ( Czech Republic ) as the headquarters of the Galileo project.

With the implementation of the EU Directive 80 / 181 / EEC on January 1, 2010, the use of horsepower in the EU is only permitted as supplementary unit.

New regulations introduced in the US and the EU as of 2010 require hedge fund managers to report more information, leading to greater transparency.

In November 2010, the EU Parliament passed the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, which seeks to provide greater monitoring and control of alternative investment fund managers operating in the EU.

The EU's Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers ( AIFMD ) was passed by the EU Parliament on November 11, 2010 and is the first EU directive focused on " alternative investment fund managers ", including hedge fund managers.

In 2010, there were 24 irradiation facilities approved to irradiate food in 13 EU member state countries.

Macedonia ’ s external trade struggled in 2010 due to the slow recovery from the economic crisis of its main trading partners, particularly EU members.

GDP per capita at purchasing power parity was € 18, 100 in 2010, which was 74 % of the EU average.

In 2010, Slovakia grew by 4. 0 % which was the highest growth among new EU member states.

Such transactions can be difficult, but in 2010, reforms approved by a Communist Party congress were expected to legalize the sale between Cuban citizens of all cars, as well as real estate.

The US FDA has approved two Chagas tests, including one approved in April 2010, and has published guidelines that recommend testing of all donated blood and tissue products.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

The country's current constitution was approved in April 2010.

Fine Gael supported civil unions for same-sex couples from 2003, voting for the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Bill 2010, and the party approved a motion at its 2012 Ard Fheis to prioritise the consideration of same-sex marriage in the upcoming constitutional convention.

A referendum was held on the resulting document on 27 June 2010, and was approved by over 90 % of voters, with a turnout of 72 %.

On January 19, 2010, Wyandotte County approved the bonds to help finance the stadium, and on January 20 the groundbreaking ceremony was made, with Wizards CEO Robb Heineman using heavy machinery to move dirt on the construction site.

Ulipristal acetate ( known as ella in the US and Ellaone in Europe ) was approved as an ECP in Europe in early 2009 and in the US in August 2010.

In October 2010, the World Bank Board of Directors approved a new Country Partnership Strategy ( CPS ) with Macedonia for the period 2011-2014.

The credit line was approved after extensive consultations with the IMF in October and December 2010.

The European Commission eventually unconditionally approved Oracle's acquisition of MySQL on 21 January 2010.

In March 2010, the Israeli government approved a $ 3 million dollar plan to develop Nazareth's tourism industry.

The natural quasicrystal phase, with a composition of Al < sub > 63 </ sub > Cu < sub > 24 </ sub > Fe < sub > 13 </ sub >, was named icosahedrite and it was approved by the International Mineralogical Association in 2010.

California approved a similar system in 2010, coming into effect for the 36th congressional district election in February 2011.

The free trade agreement has been approved in September 2010, following Italy's conditional withdrawal of its veto of the free trade agreement.

Recently, the first strategic plan for HIV / AIDS prevention in the military was approved for 2006 – 2010.

In July 2010, the Puntland Council of Ministers unanimously approved a new anti-terrorism law to more efficiently handle terror suspects and their accomplices ; a special court is also expected to be established within the region's existing criminal courts system to facilitate the task.

It has approved some compensatory actions, such as scholarships for descendants of survivors, economic development of Greenwood, and a memorial park, dedicated in 2010, to the victims in Tulsa.

The end-of-year FY 2010 DoS Agency Financial Report, approved by Secretary Clinton on 15 November 2010, showed actual total costs for the year of $ 27. 4 billion.

In February 2010, Lulu Xingwana approved the town's name to be changed again to Mahikeng.

On March 18, 2010, three other villages ( East Randolph, Randolph and Perrysburg ) followed suit and approved dissolution into their surrounding towns ( Town of Randolph for the first two, and Town of Perrysburg for the third ); these three villages dissolved at the beginning of 2012.

Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.

It contains a ‘ sunset clause ’, and it will automatically cease to have effect on November 1, 2010, unless the legislature decides to prolong the law, or extend it to other mass civil case proceedings.

As of mid 2010, the Congolese Parliament is debating a new defence law, provisionally designated Organic Law 130.

Paraguay was losing its natural semi humid forests in the country ’ s western regions at a rate of 15. 000 hectares at a randomly studied 2 month period in 2010, Paraguay ’ s parliament refused in 2009 to pass a law that would have stopped cutting of natural forests altogether.

During Obama's State of the Union Address on January 27, 2010, he said that he would work with Congress and the military to enact a repeal of the gay ban law and for the first time set a timetable for repeal.

As president, Obama said in his State of the Union Address in 2010, " This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are.

* 2010 – The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

In 2010, after controversial high school shootings in 2008 prompted government review, a constitutional law committee concluded that people over the age of 20 can receive a permit for semiautomatic handguns.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111-148 ) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

The law includes health-related provisions to take effect over the next four years, including expanding Medicaid eligibility for people making up to 133 % of the federal poverty level ( FPL ), subsidizing insurance premiums for people making up to 400 % of the FPL ($ 88, 000 for family of 4 in 2010 ) so their maximum " out-of-pocket " payment for annual premiums will be from 2 % to 9. 5 % of income, providing incentives for businesses to provide health care benefits, prohibiting denial of coverage and denial of claims based on pre-existing conditions, establishing health insurance exchanges, prohibiting insurers from establishing annual coverage caps, and support for medical research.

On July 21, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010 (" NRRA "), which took effect on July 21, 2011 and was part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

The Justice Department on January 11, 2010 initiated the Indian Country Law Enforcement Initiative which recognizes problems with law enforcement on reservations and assigns top priority to solving existing problems. The Department of Justice recognizes the unique legal relationship that the United States has with federally recognized tribes.

* 1950 – Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official ( d. 2010 )

* 2010 – Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official ( b. 1950 )

On May 5, 2010, Robert Rodriguez responded to Arizona's controversial immigration law by releasing an " illegal " trailer on Ain't It Cool News.

In April 2010, Arizona enacted SB 1070, a law that would require law-enforcement officers to verify the citizenship of individuals they stop if they have reasonable suspicion that they may be in the United States illegally.

On 28 January 2010, after short-term vignettas were introduced by Slovenia and some other changes were made to the Slovenian vignette system, the European Commission concluded that the vignette system is in accordance with the European law.

More recently, the US Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed into law by President Obama in July 2010, contained a supply chain sustainability provision in the form of the Conflict Minerals law.

On October 1, 2010, squatting was finally outlawed in The Netherlands after the Squatting Ban Bill was passed into law by both houses of Parliament.

On 22 July 2010, the International Court of Justice gave the following advisory opinion: " The declaration of independence of Kosovo adopted on 17 February 2008 did not violate international law.