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How The E-commerce Directive Affects Your Business
News They implement the EU's e-Commerce Directive which aims to boost e-commerce by removing internal market barriers and promoting consumer confidence. Online businesses could be on the receiving end of a "Stop Now" Order requiring them to bring their...
[October 20, 2002, 21:11]
Slippery Patents Directive Is Doubleplusungood
Talkback Nothing would make our members, who all support the CII Directive, happier than if the EU's Council of Ministers threw out the Directive. We could then remain with the status quo, which as everyone knows is working extremely well.
[January 21, 2005, 12:06]
Police Slammed For 'hysterical' Response To EU Privacy Directive
News The National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS) last week issued what Caspar Bowden, director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, called a "hysterical" response to the planned European directive on data protection and privacy in the...
[August 13, 2001, 12:52]
Patent Directive 'back On EU Agenda'
Talkback Many national parliaments have spoken against this Patent directive.Duch, Polish, German) This will only aliënatie Europeans from their Parliament. Why should this be decided on a EU Council Agriculture and Fishery meeting?
[January 21, 2005, 14:33]
Patent Directive Faces Fishy Future
Talkback Have you looked at the other items on the agenda with the CII Directive? Out of 16, I found only 1 that had anything to do with fish! This is how the Council usually operates. Nothing sinister or unusual.
[December 13, 2004, 12:45]
Politicians Demand Fresh Start For Patent Directive
News Members of the European Parliament from countries including Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden have asked for the software patent directive to be redone from scratch, according to a report on Monday.
[January 10, 2005, 11:50]
Patent Office Wants Debate On Software Directive
News The UK Patent Office (UKPO) announced on Friday that it will hold a series of public workshops across the UK to discuss the proposed software patent directive. This is a key part of the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID), which says...
[February 4, 2005, 11:55]
Patent Directive Slammed At UKPO Workshop
Talkback The patents directive will not have the benefitial effects that the Patent Office and the EU Commission think it will have. Many small companies could be put out of business if this directive goes ahead.
[April 18, 2005, 22:22]
EU Vote 'widens Loopholes' In Software Patent Directive
Talkback Some MEPs may genuinely believe the outrageous lies coming from the proponents of the directive, but it is becoming harder and harder to credit them with that much stupidity: Proponent: "This directive will not change what is or isn't patentable...
[June 21, 2005, 18:34]
A Year Ago: EU Directive Poses Anti-caching Threat
News The European Internet Service Providers Association (EuroISPA) today called for an amendment to the proposed European Union copyright directive amid fears that a ban on temporary caching could bring the Net to its knees.
[February 11, 2000, 6:02]
EU Members Ignore Spam Directive
News The EU's anti-spam directive, which was passed in July 2003, has been ignored by most EU member states because it will not stop the spam problem, according to research published by the Institute of Information Law (IvIR) at the InfoSecurity...
[April 27, 2004, 15:00]
Commission Refuses To Rewrite Patent Directive
News The European Commission (EC) has rejected requests to rewrite the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID), sparking a furious response from campaigners who accused the EC of acting undemocratically.
[February 28, 2005, 15:45]
WEEE Directive Sees Council Ship Old PCs To Africa
News Brent Council in London has hit on a way to comply with the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive for the responsible disposal of computer hardware, while also helping parts of the world in need of a technology boost.
[April 22, 2008, 10:53]
EC Pushes On With Patent Directive
Talkback Trainee Patent Attorney, dealing with software patents on a daily basis and having read the proposed directive doesn't exactly make you an IP laywer and experienced software developer as well, does it?
[February 28, 2005, 14:24]
EU Vote 'widens Loopholes' In Software Patent Directive
Talkback Leave anything of this directive intact and the big companies will have the chains they need to tie up anyone in court for many years to come as they see fit. The idea being not so much to actually be able to patent something but more to have...
[June 21, 2005, 21:07]
The New Presidential Directive On "Screening" Terrorist Information - Has Congress Abdicated Its Traditional Oversight Role?
White Papers "Homeland Security Presidential Directive/Hspd-6", dated September 16, 2003, has to do with the integration of information about "individuals" who are known or suspected to be terrorists. The Directive looks a lot like the outline of a proposal...
[February 23, 2005, 23:00]
WEEE Directive Begins Final Phase
News The Government has announced the last phase of the implementation of the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Directive. As of 1 July 2007, WEEE will come into force, with the aim of ensuring hardware that has reached the end of its...
[July 26, 2006, 15:00]
Patent Directive Adoption Just Days Away
Talkback Should this directive get passed in such slippery ways then not a few politicians will have to explain a thing or two and most likely face the political consequences of their (in)actions.
[January 24, 2005, 22:24]
EU Directive Poses Anti-caching Threat
News The European Internet Service Providers Association (EuroISPA) today called for an amendment to the proposed European Union copyright directive amid fears that a ban on temporary caching could bring the Net to its knees.
[February 11, 1999, 14:27]
Patents Directive Wins European Parliament OK
News The European Parliament has voted to approve a highly controversial directive governing the patentability of computer-implemented inventions -- including software -- but with amendments that appear to be a victory for critics of the original...
[September 24, 2003, 18:05]
