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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]
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]
Clinical Literature Reviews: Changes in the European Union's Medical Device Directive Require Manufacturers to Take Immediate Steps to Comply
White Papers With a rapidly approaching March 2010 deadline to comply with the European Union's revised Medical Device Directive, Nerac advises that manufacturers, now faced with an enormous amount of work to complete in a short period of time, take immediate...
[May 1, 2009, 1:18]
Campaigners celebrate patent directive defeat
News Opponents of sofware patents are celebrating the European Parliament's virtually unanimous decision on Wednesday to reject the directive on the patentability of computer implemented inventions. Pollock claimed the pro-patent groups changed their...
[July 7, 2005, 16:45]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback He did not ask for a remowal of the software patent directive from the A-list. Therefore he now has to work the cancellation af the directive. I have just listend to the Danish "Økonomiminister" (minister of economy) Bendt Bendtsen statement.
[March 7, 2005, 23:28]
Freeserve demands action on e-commerce VAT directive
News UK Internet service provider Freeserve insisted on Wednesday that the UK government must move swiftly to implement a European directive that would see non-EU companies that sell Internet services forced to pay VAT.
[December 19, 2001, 13:02]
EU data-retention directive leaked
News A draft of the European Directive on data retention has been leaked, revealing that Brussels will be asking for all communications records to be held for a minimum of six months. The latest version of the Directive, made public by the European...
[August 2, 2005, 9:45]
Recycling directive leads to price hikes
News Retailers in Ireland have been accused of taking advantage of the EU recycling directive's introduction by raising their prices. The EU Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) directive became law in Ireland on Saturday and was immediately...
[August 15, 2005, 17:25]
Patent directive adoption just days away
News An EU Council spokeswoman said on Monday that the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID), which many say will allow widespread software patenting in Europe, is likely to be ratified on 31 January.
[January 24, 2005, 16:30]
EC pushes on with patent directive
Talkback The proposed directive does not "legalise" software patenting, but instead formalises the status quo in the EC, as currently practiced by the European Patent Office. The goal of the directive is to PREVENT PATENT LAW SLIPPING TOWARDS CURRENT...
[February 22, 2005, 13:00]
Is the WEEE directive in trouble?
Blog The directive was introduced to little fanfare in the UK about this time last year. A large number of reprocessors jumped on the WEEE bandwaggon, hoping to make quick and "profitable" exercise out of the affair.
[August 21, 2008, 14:27]
EU Parliament forgives Council for adopting patent directive
Talkback "The European Parliament (EP) agreed on Wednesday that the EU Council did not break procedural rules when it adopted the software patent directive earlier this month. Right, well, I don't know about the rest of you's but I'm off to the EP to break...
[March 31, 2005, 19:50]
EC prepares interception directive for email
News The directive is due to be adopted by the Commission on 27 June. However, following France's allegations in February that the US and Great Britain were spying on French citizens without the consent of the French government, observers are predicting...
[June 8, 2000, 11:40]
Internet case overturns European Data Directive
News The Swedish Supreme Court overturned the European Data Protection Directive on Tuesday by ruling that a person who posted libellous material about several Swedish banks on the Internet was merely exercising his freedom of speech.
[July 18, 2001, 13:51]
Watered down EC Directive
News The long-awaited Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 came into force on 21st August. As reported in our recent Updates, further provisions to regulate unsolicited e-mails are due to come into force next year under the recently...
[September 26, 2002, 10:27]
Software patent directive adopted
News The European Council adopted the software patent directive on Monday, despite requests from Denmark, Poland and Portugal to reject the directive. An EU Council spokeswoman said on Monday morning that the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive...
[March 7, 2005, 9:45]
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]
Copyright directive 'will stifle EU competition'
News A draft EU directive designed to protect intellectual property rights will undermine small technology companies and criminalise the blind because it gives too much power to large companies, according to a UK-based Internet policy think tank.
[August 5, 2003, 16:35]
Anti-piracy directive could expose consumers
News Minor copyright infringements could lead to harsh sanctions under the anti-piracy directive approved by the European Parliament on Tuesday, according to a UK civil liberties group. The directive could trigger sweeping changes to the UK's...
[March 10, 2004, 13:20]
Slippery patents directive is doubleplusungood
Leader The news that the European Software Directive may be slipped through in a fisheries session in Brussels next week really is doubleplusungood. The only reason the directive has got this far is that the proponents -- interested parties all, including...
[January 21, 2005, 11:30]
