The strips, along with most of the rest of McCay's works, fell into the public domain in most of the world on January 1, 2005, 70 years after McCay's death ( see Copyright and the EU's Directive harmonizing the term of copyright protection for details ).

The EU's standard toxic symbol, as defined by Directive 67 / 548 / EEC.

To date, the US has no single data protection law comparable to the EU's Data Protection Directive.

Zino's Petrel is protected under the EU's Wild Birds Directive, and its breeding sites lie within the Parque Natural da Madeira national park.

The Equality Act 2010 reaches beyond employment, into access to private and public services, but in the field of work it largely reflects the EU's case law and the Equal Treatment Directive for gender, the Racial Equality Directive and the Employment Equality Framework Directive for disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief and age, ree major EU Equality Directives.

* Electrical and Electronic Equipment, as used for the EU's Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive.

As part of the EU's SAVE Programme, aimed at promoting energy efficiency and encouraging energy-saving behaviour, the Boiler Efficiency Directive specifies minimum levels of efficiency for boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels.

However, in Europe, batteries are under the European Commission's 1991 Battery Directive ( 91 / 157 / EEC ), which was recently increased in scope and approved in the form of the new battery directive, version 2003 / 0282 COD, which will be official when submitted to and published in the EU's Official Journal.

In 2004, similarities were noted between the EU's Food Supplements Directive and the Codex Alimentarius draft guidelines for vitamin and mineral supplements '.

This change is a result of the EU's Eco-design Directive for Energy-using Products ( EuP ).

He said that part of the responsibility lay with the EU's 1989 Framework Directive, which made risk assessments compulsory across all occupations, whether hazardous or not.

He has done legislative work on such issues as the Tobacco Directive, the introduction of the euro currency, water quality, AIDS, completion of the EU's internal market in alcohol products, international banking fees, the European Central Bank, safety of children's toys, car exhaust emissions, food safety, and genetically modified organisms and human genetics, homeopathic and pharmaceutical products, Dutch prisoners in Thailand.

The Directive requires Member States to set penalties for breach, as enacting criminal penalties is beyond the EU's normal ambit-Re Tachographs ( ECJ 1979 ).

he is also the leader of the cross political campaign Stopp Datalagringsdirektivet ( fighting to reject EU's Data Retention Directive ) and works for the Norwegian Data Inspectorate.

The EU's budget ( which is around 116. 4 billion euro ) is subject to a form of the ordinary legislative procedure with a single reading giving Parliament power over the entire budget ( prior to 2009, its influence was limited to certain areas ) on an equal footing to the Council.

As part of the EU's usage, the flag appears on the euro banknotes.

Extraordinary flying of the flag is common on the EU's flag day, known as Europe Day, which is celebrated annually on 9 May.

However, the EU's desire to work on foreign policy was undermined due to its failure to act during the Yugoslav wars, and its division over whether to support the United States lead Iraq War.

Therefore, the ECJ refers to the case-law of the Court of Human Rights and treats the Convention on Human Rights as though it was part of the EU's legal system.

Carlo Rubbia was principal Scientific Adviser of CIEMAT ( Spain ), a member of the high-level Advisory Group on Climate Change set up by EU's President Barroso in 2007 and of the Board of Trustees at the IMDEA Energy Institute.

The federal government ran a 7. 1 % budget deficit in 1992 at the time of the EU's Treaty of Maastricht, which established conditions for Economic and Monetary Union ( EMU ) that led to adoption of the common Euro currency on January 1, 2002.

They also claimed that five applicant countries could have joined the EU without changing the EU's rules, and that others could have negotiated on an individual basis ; something opponents to the treaty argued would have been to the applicants ' advantage.

It is worth noting that one of the factors behind the 1992 reforms was the need to reach agreement with the EU's external trade partners at the Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) talks with regards to agricultural subsidies.

Only 5. 4 % of EU's population works on farms, and the farming sector is responsible for 1. 6 % of the GDP of the EU ( 2005 ).< ref > Turkey in Europe: Breaking the Vicious Circle.

He came out of retirement to campaign for a " yes " vote in the second Irish referendum on the EU's Treaty of Nice, held in 2002.

FitzGerald took a leading part in the campaign for the second referendum on the EU's Treaty of Lisbon in 2009.

European Political Co-operation was an informal consultation process between member states on foreign policy matters, with the aim of creating a common approach to foreign policy issues and promoting both the EU's own interests and those of the international community as a whole.

The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy | High Representative, Catherine Ashton, is the EU's spokesperson on foreign policy.

This definition is based on the EU's EIF v1 definition of " open standard ," but with changes to address what it terms as " vendor capture.

The European Union and United States governments are in strong disagreement over the EU's ban on most genetically modified foods.

British American Tobacco spent more than € 700, 000 lobbying the EU in 2008, up to four times as much as the company declared on the EU's register of interest representatives, according to a report by Corporate Europe Observatory.

The EU's legislation is administered by the Committee on Orphan Medicinal Products of the European Medicines Agency ( EMA ).

He travelled all over the North Atlantic to produce a landmark Green Paper on Fisheries .< ref name = Conservatives_profile > Paterson joined the crew of the Kiroan, one of the few remaining trawlers out of Fleetwood, Lancashire, to view the fishing practices which have been created by the EU's Common Fisheries Policy.

The survey, carried out by Burson-Marsteller, a lobbying and PR company, asked respondents to rate European Commissioners on a report card grading of A to E. None scored lower than D except for Lady Ashton, a commission vice-president as well as the EU's high representative for foreign affairs, who scored an E for her performance.

Under the EU's Alternative Investment Fund Managers directive, offshore hedge funds using prime brokers as depositaries will be required to use EU-registered credit institutions before they can be sold in the EU.

In 2003, English Heritage secured £ 500, 000 from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund and from the EU's Interreg programme under the Historic Fortifications Network, as administered by Kent County Council.

In November 2007, it was agreed to reallocate funds from the EU's agriculture and administration budgets and to soften the tendering process in order to invite more EU companies.

This greatly improves the viability of the Galileo project: " The EU's executive had previously said that if agreement was not reached by January 2008, the long-troubled project would essentially be dead.

The EU's program was followed by a Japanese program in 2001, and in 2002 the U. S. created the National Organic Program ( NOP ).

Following the EU's example, the African Union was founded in 2002 and the Union of South American Nations in 2004.

Elements of the WEU were merged into the EU's CFSP and the President of the WEU was also the High Representative.

However ; inflation was running at 2. 7 % ( compared with the EU's 1. 7 %) in November, unemployment stood at more than 10 %, almost one-third of the workforce had temporary contracts, and housing prices were spiraling.

The formal WTO case challenging the EU's regulatory system was in particular lobbied by U. S. biotechnology giant Monsanto Company and France's Aventis, as well as by big agricultural groups such as the National Corn Growers Association.

The countries argued that the EU's regulatory process was far too slow and its standards were unreasonable given that the overwhelming body of scientific evidence finds the crops safe.

The ongoing political crisis was one of the reasons for the EU's refusal to grant Albania official candidate status in late 2010.

Reinfeldt was also responsible in this role to put EU's efforts to get into a binding agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 but this did not succeed.

On 29 June 2004 he was designated to become the EU's first " Union Minister for Foreign Affairs ", a position created by the European Constitutional Treaty combining the head of the CFSP with that of the European Commissioner for External Relations.

The European Communities operated as the largest of the EU's three pillars until the EEC ( renamed the European Community in 1993 ) was absorbed when the pillar system was abolished.

The Council of Europe's day reflects its own establishment in 1949, while the European Union's day celebrates the day the EU's predecessor was proposed in 1950.

Hence, at the 1985 Milan European Council, 29 September was adopted as the EU's flag day.

Funded in part by the EU's ENTRANCE program, the Bikeabout scheme was a " smart card " fully automated system.

As well as Leader of the Lords, she held responsibility in the House of Lords for equalities issues, and she was instrumental in steering the EU's Treaty of Lisbon through the UK's upper chamber.

On 19 November 2009, Ashton was appointed the EU's first High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.