The North American agencies will only require these standards for new device submissions, while the EU will take the more severe approach of requiring all applicable devices being placed on the market to consider the home healthcare standard.

This too will become obsolete over the coming years as Q. 931, a European standard, becomes widely adopted in the EU.

The aid package falls under the EU ’ s € 1 billion Food Facility, set up with the UN Secretary-General ’ s High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Crisis and FAO to focus on programmes that will have a quick but lasting impact on food security.

In 2010, the EU approved a law that will require all EU hedge fund managers to register with national regulatory authorities.

All hedge fund managers within the EU will also be subject to potential limitations on the amount of leverage they can use.

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.

The AIFMD's regulatory requirements will essentially mandate equivalent regulations for non-EU investment funds, if they wish to operate in EU markets.

A Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Iraq is in the process of being negotiated and will probably be concluded during 2008.

* Fulfilling the required criteria and their presentation for the purpose of ensuring that the EU will bring a decision on a date for start of EU membership negotiations.

New law to come in shortly in three provinces first including Maastricht and Eindhoven ( covering other provinces including Amsterdam in 2012 ) only allowing registered members of clubs to go to the cannabis cafes, only Dutch residents who are at least 18 years of age can register but all foreigners will be banned including these from EU states.

In the year 2009 the water board will initiate an Integrated River Basin Management Plan in compliance with the European Union ( EU ) Water Framework Directive, 2000 / 60 / EC.

The rest will be reauctioned and as a result of renegotiations with the EU, the remaining segments will receive funds from the EU.

The logo has already been used for the EU information campaign which will also be continued during the Austrian EU Presidency.

The government strongly supports NATO and EU integration and has stated that it will continue the democratic and free market-oriented reforms begun by the first Dzurinda government.

Although harmonization with EU law and standards will require great efforts, already underway, the EU accession process will serve to advance Slovenia's structural reform agenda.

The treaty establishes rights and obligations between the Swiss and the EU and the member states severally ; it does not establish any rights and obligations amongst the EU and its member states.

A key factor in the CTEA ’ s passage was a 1993 European Union ( EU ) directive instructing EU members to establish a baseline copyright term of life plus 70 years and to deny this longer term to the works of any non-EU country whose laws did not secure the same extended term.

Following an invitation by the Bosnian authorities, the EU decided to establish a follow-on police mission with a modified mandate and size.

Proposed in 2002, one motivation at least for the controversial draft EU Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions was to have been to establish common practice for the national courts ; and, in cases of doubt as to its interpretation, to have created a requirement for national courts of last instance to seek a ruling from the European Court of Justice.

* Freedom of establishment, the right of EU nationals to establish themselves economically in any member state of the Internal Market ( European Union )

* Guide for cities to establish a Bike sharing program, EU financed Report on public bicycles

They establish the various EU institutions together with their remit, procedures and objectives.

Article 206 and 207 establish the common commercial ( external trade ) policy of the EU.

Factortame sought, first, a preliminary injunction declaring that the offending part of the 1988 Act could not be applied to them on the grounds that such application would be contrary to directly effective rights under EU law, specifically the right not to be discriminated against on the grounds of nationality ( article 7 of the Treaty of Rome ), the right of individuals and companies to establish themselves in business anywhere in the EU ( articles 43 – 48 ), and the right to participate in the capital of companies situated in another Member State ( article 294 ).

Upon taking office she put in place a truly EU Justice policy launching a series of groundbreaking proposals in the field of civil, commercial and criminal justice in line with the ambitions set by the Treaty of Lisbon to establish a European area of justice.

The Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters between the Member States of the European Union and the Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on joint investigation teams were the instruments used by the EU to establish this possibility.

In the EU there is a European Union directive ( INSPIRE directive ) to establish shared standards between the different countries, accompanied by web viewing of rendered map data, and an unspecified license framework for geographic data.

In this capacity he helped to establish Latvia as the EU candidate country and led the accession negotiations, which resulted in Latvia's successful accession to the EU in 2004.

The EU guidelines mention that states should “ conduct prompt, impartial and effective investigations of all allegations of torture in accordance with the Istanbul Rules annexed to CHR resolution 2000 / 43 ” and should “ establish and operate effective domestic procedures for responding to and investigating complaints and reports of torture and ill-treatment in accordance with the Istanbul Rules .”

The Services Directive, which came into force on the 28th December 2009, requires all EU Member States to establish web portals so anyone who provides a service will have a " point of single contact " where they can find out what legal requirements they would need to meet to operate in the country in question.

Nicosia continues to oppose EU efforts to establish direct trade and economic links to TRNC as a way of encouraging the Turkish Cypriot community to continue to support the resolution of the Cyprus dispute.

This group concluded that the EU should establish an ERC to support basic research.

In the de-regulated EU, these will be licensed alternative operators ( e. g. Cable and Wireless / Colt in the UK or Jazztel in Spain ) or the ( PTT )' s of other countries, such as T-Systems ( Germany ), Telefónica ( Spain ), NTT ( Japan ) or Telstra ( Australia ), who establish offices or a point of presence ( POP ) in a major telecommunications hub city such as London, New York, Hong Kong or Amsterdam.

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.

The Community acquis or acquis communautaire (; ), sometimes called the EU acquis, and often shortened to acquis, is the accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the body of European Union law.

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 ).

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.

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.

The European Union fully implemented the Basel Ban in its Waste Shipment Regulation ( EWSR ), making it legally binding in all EU member states.

With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on January 1, 2007, Cyrillic became the third official alphabet of the EU.

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 areas of Lochnagar and Ballochbuie were designated in 1998 by the Secretary of State for Scotland as Special Protection Areas ( SPA ) under the European Union ( EU ) Birds Directive.

: On December 16, 2004, the CIA added an entry for the European Union ( EU ).

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

The EU application was the last major international undertaking of the Račan government, which submitted a 7, 000-page report in reply to the questionnaire by the European Commission.

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.

Italy and Britain ratified the Stabilization and Association Agreement shortly thereafter, while the ten EU countries that were admitted to membership that year ratified it en masse at a European Summit.

The Council of the European Union ( sometimes just called the Council and sometimes still referred to as the Council of Ministers ) is the institution in the essentially bicameral legislature of the European Union ( EU ) representing the executives of member states, the other legislative body being the European Parliament.

Finally, before the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, it formally held the executive power of the EU which it conferred upon the European Commission.

It monitors and co-ordinates work and deals with the Parliament on co-decision legislation ( along with leading the non – EU defence organisation, the Western European Union ).

The name " Cheddar " is not protected by the European Union, though the name " West Country Farmhouse Cheddar " has an EU Protected Designation of Origin, and may only be produced in Somerset, Devon, Dorset, and Cornwall, using milk sourced from those counties.

In December 1992, the rest of the EC agreed to exempt Denmark from certain aspects of the European Union, including a common defense, a common currency, EU citizenship, and certain aspects of legal cooperation ( the 4 Danish Opt-outs ).

European Union ( EU ) legislation recognises academic qualifications ( including higher degrees and doctorates ) of all member states.

All missions to the United Nations are known simply as permanent missions, while EU Member States ' missions to the European Union are known as permanent representations and the head of such a mission is typically both a permanent representative and an ambassador.