Introduction to EU Defence Directive

Harmful impact of EU clinical trials directive.

The EU Insurance Mediation Directive – Bureaucracy or Opportunity?

The insurance mediation directive of the EU contributes to the recent regulation of financial services markets in order to improve customer protection. Many financial services providers as well as insurance intermediaries fear expensive documentation overhead. In this paper, we argue that the documentation requirements offer a variety of chances. As neither the directive nor national law explic...

The New EU Directive Concerning the Legal Protection of Databases

On September 14, 1995, the Commission accepted the Common Position and transmitted its opinion to the European Parliament. The European Parliament dealt with the Common Position in a second reading which began on September 21, 1995. On December 14, 1995, it adopted a decision approving the Common Position subject to eight minor drafting changes. The Commission’s opinion on the European Parliame...

Combined sewer overflow quality and EU Water Framework Directive

The Community strategy against pollution of surface water control policy was set out by the European Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC which lays down new procedures for the identification of substances and development of control measures. After the decision n° 2455/2001/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2001 setting out the first list of 33 substances or groups...

Implications of the EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC

The strongly discussed EUData Retention directive 2006/24/EC released in 2006 requires the operators of publicly accessible electronic communication networks to retain traffic and location data for various services provided in order to serve the investigation, detection, and prosecution of serious crime. In this paper, we focus on the regulations of the directive in the areas of Internet access...