BACKGROUND The aim of our article is to characterise and compare current standards of health care provision for asylum seekers in the 25 European Union (EU) countries in order to identify the needs and potential for improving access to health care for asylum seekers. METHODS The study is based on an e-mail survey performed between April and June 2004. The questionnaire was concerned with asyl...

1 Design rights represent an interesting example of how the EU legislature has successfully regulated an otherwise heterogeneous field of law. Yet this type of protection is not for all. The tools created by EU intervention have been drafted paying much more attention to the industry sector rather than to designers themselves. In particular, modern, Abstract: Design rights represent an interest...

This article scrutinises the potential of existing regulatory apparatus in Union law to tackle social, technical, and legal challenges inherent deploying automated systems high-risk settings such as workplace, with a view setting out key lessons for proposed EU Artificial Intelligence Act. Surveying data protection discrimination rules well social acquis, it highlights areas further development...

In the framework of post-Covid-19 pandemic, Europe is facing two problems in terms migrant workers: a shortage agricultural production workers some countries and "coercive acceptance" undocumented workers. Most EU are state economic recovery after so activities need to be restored at reasonable cost. However, aging population European forcing governments hire foreign high costs. To balance need...

The paper attempts to measure relative efficiency in utilizing public education expenditures in the new EU member states in comparison to the selected EU (plus Croatia) and OECD countries. As resources allocated to education are significantly limited, a special emphasis should be given to their efficient use regarding the institutional and legal constraints. By applying non-parametric methodolo...

T he Network of Competent Authorities (NCA) is one of the implementing structures of the Health Information and Knowledge Strand of the EU Public Health Programme 2003– 08. 1 The NCA became aware of problems in the field of European public health monitoring related to data protection legislation, and established in 2005, on a voluntary basis, a Work Group on Data Protection, consisting of six m...

The two different categories of legal AI system are described, and legal analysis systems are chosen as objects of study. So-called judgment machines are discussed, but it is decided that research in legal AI systems would be best carried-out in the area of legal expert systems. The process of legal reasoning is briefly examined, and two different methods of legal knowledge representation are d...