* application for membership in the EU in February 2003

At the time of Croatia's application to the European Union, three EU countries were yet to ratify the Stabilization and Association Agreement: the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Italy.

The government filed an EU membership application three months after the dissolution of the USSR and became a member in 1995.

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

In March 2004, the Republic of Macedonia submitted an application for membership of the EU.

Malta's EU application was subsequently frozen.

On being returned to office in the 1998 elections with a wide 13, 000 vote margin, the Nationalist Party reactivated the EU membership application.

In July 2002, the European Commission also established the European Regulators Group for Electronic Communications Networks and Services ; creating, for the first time, a formal structure for interaction and coordination between the European Commission and regulators in all EU Member States to ensure consistent application of European legislation.

In practice, tradeable permits approaches have had some success, such as the U. S .' s sulphur dioxide trading program or the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and interest in its application is spreading to other environmental problems.

Splintered by factionalism over the economy and Iceland's role in the European Union ( EU ), the SDP also suffered from being the only party to support Iceland's EU membership application.

However, the wording in Kremzow, referring to the " field of application of EU law ", differs from the wording in the Charter which refers to the implementation of EU law.

On 1 May 2004 a decentralised regime for antitrust came into force to increase application of EU competition law by national competition authorities and national courts.

He also proposed the emendament 16 to protect the freedom of the press from the strict application of the EU directive ( IPRED2 ) on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

The following top Institutions were involved: Federal Government ( Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology ), EU Standing Conference and economic ministerial meeting of countries, the German Confederation of hand-plant, the Confederation of German Employers ' Associations, German Chambers of Industry and Commerce, German Trade Union Federation, Federal Institute for Vocational application.

Direct effect has subsequently been loosened in its application to treaty articles and the ECJ has expanded the principle, holding that it is capable of applying to virtually all of the possible forms of EU legislation, the most important of which are regulations and in certain circumstances to directives.

Montenegro submitted its application for EU membership in December 2008.

In April 2008, Hoffmann-La Roche, the pharmaceutical company that markets Daclizumab ( under the name " Zenapax ") in Europe, submitted an application to have its marketing authorisation withdrawn in the EU for commercial reasons.

While derogations from the application of EU law could apply, none do.

With respect to the application of EU law to Gibraltar, the Governments of Spain and the United Kingdom made the following Declaration which is appended ( as Declaration 55 ) to the Treaty on European Union: " The Treaties apply to Gibraltar as a European territory for whose external relations a Member State is responsible.

Since the long term effects of lead-free solder, a primary RoHS objective, cannot be known for a period of at least five years following the directive ’ s application to the remaining eight categories, the EU has established at least a temporary moratorium for Category 8 and 9 products.

Since the EU has not yet adopted this recommendation, the exact timing of RoHS application to Category 8 and 9 products remained uncertain.

Consequently, it is suggested that the management of the CFP could be improved through the application of the theory of subsidiarity-the principle that political decisions should be handled at the lowest, least centralised competent level .< ref > The subsidiarity principle was introduced into EU policies as part of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty ; however, it does not apply to areas such as the CFP over which the Community retains exclusive competence.

When Austria became a member of the European Union, the Austrian variety of the German language — limited to 23 agricultural terms — was " protected " in Protocol No 10, regarding the use of specific Austrian terms of the German language in the framework of the European Union, which forms part of the Austrian EU accession treaty.

During the process of the enlargement of the European Union, the acquis was divided into 31 chapters for the purpose of negotiation between the EU and the candidate member states for the fifth enlargement ( the ten that joined in 2004 plus Romania and Bulgaria which joined in 2007 ).

Additionally, Bonn was closer to Brussels, headquarters of the EU.

The Council of the European Union decided against Belarus in 1997: The PCA was not concluded, nor was its trade-related part ; Belarusian membership in the Council of Europe was not supported ; bilateral relations at the ministerial level were suspended and EU technical assistance programs were frozen.

* 2007: To commemorate the centenary of the Treaty of Rome, the military parade was led by troops from the 26 other EU member states, all marching at the French time.

but such imports remain controversial even though in 2012 the EU was reported to import 30 million tons a year of GM crops.

However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law.

The original EU legislation “ Restrictions of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronics Devices ” ( RoHS Directive 2002 / 95 / EC ) was replaced and superseded by 2011 / 65 / EU published in July 2011 and commonly known as RoHS 2.

( Before this date, the EU was excluded from the Factbook.

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

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 country was finally accepted as EU candidate in July 2004.

Cyprus's legislation was aligned with EU norms in the period leading up to EU accession in 2004.

In 2002 a modern, business-friendly tax system was put in place with a 10 % corporate tax rate, the lowest in the EU.

GDP per capita at purchasing power parity was $ 27, 100 in 2011, which is 85 % of the EU average.

Cook automated teller machines often fail to fully disclose the fact that the Cooks are not part of the New Zealand banking system, thus legally requiring banks to charge the same fees for withdrawing or transferring money as if the person was in Australia or the EU.

Until this German Federal legislation was introduced, there were no recognised mechanism to prevent administrators in private bodies and civil servants in public-funded bodies ( such as universities ) from automatically discriminating between the qualifications of people with German doctorates compared to holders of doctorates from an EU member state.

The EFTA was established on 3 May 1960 as a trade bloc-alternative for European states who were either unable or unwilling to join the then-European Economic Community ( EEC ) which has now become the EU.

The flag was used widely in a 2007 European March in Minsk as protesters rallied in support of democracy and accession to the EU.