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UK Fails To Implement Recycling Directive
News The UK has yet to introduce the Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive and is consulting on the matter. The directive is expected to become in the UK law this October with businesses having to comply by July 2005.
[August 18, 2004, 17:05]
UK Workshops Find Patent Directive Faulty
News Workshops held by the UK Patent Office (UKPO) around the country have found that the definition of technical contribution in the software patent directive would let through too many patents, according to the UKPO on Friday.
[May 27, 2005, 18:25]
UK Workshops Find Patent Directive Faulty
Talkback Another clear signal that spells NO in big bright neon capital letters. Now which part of NO do politicians not understand?
[May 29, 2005, 20:59]
UK Workshops Find Patent Directive Faulty
Talkback If politicians don't stop patents we will have to change people that run EU. If they don't listen to people and big majority of software companies then they just shouldn't represent us. But now that they are still making decisions we have to do...
[May 29, 2005, 23:49]
UK Workshops Find Patent Directive Faulty
Talkback Apparently the new political sense is: if it is broken do not fix it.
[May 30, 2005, 9:45]
UK Workshops Find Patent Directive Faulty
Talkback why doesn't someone patent the patent process so no one can use it
[May 27, 2005, 21:25]
UK Workshops Find Patent Directive Faulty
Talkback Dear Reader, The whole and only idea behind software patents is to illegalize all Open_Source projects in one blow - and doing so killing off all _real_ innovation ! Just consider the corporations advocating software patents and everybody - maybe...
[June 15, 2005, 8:25]
UK Fails To Implement Recycling Directive
Talkback less of the carrot and much more stick, smak 'em front ways.they'll really listen then!
[August 18, 2004, 22:24]
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]
UK Launches 'Euro-DMCA' Debate
News The UK looks set to get its own version of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), following the publication of proposals to implement the EU Copyright Directive into UK Law. Under Article 6 of the Directive, the UK and other...
[August 12, 2002, 11:29]
Phone-call Logs To Be Stored For A Year
News UK telecoms companies will be required to retain call log information for 12 months after an EU-based directive was signed into law by the Home Secretary. The Data Retention Regulations, which transpose most of the EU Data Retention Directive into...
[July 31, 2007, 13:23]
Revised Online Video Rules Attacked
News European plans to regulate online audiovisual content remain a threat despite modifications to an European Commission directive, UK ministers and regulators have claimed. Warning that continental Europe had a "stronger predilection for state...
[March 14, 2007, 11:59]
UK Patent Office Under Fire Over Software Report
News The UK Patent Office (UKPO) has been criticised by anti-patent campaigners on Monday for an article it published last week on the software patent directive. It claims that the directive is needed to stop the UK from moving towards a US-style...
[November 8, 2004, 17:18]
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]
ICO: UK May Get Data-breach Notification Law
News Deputy information commissioner David Smith said proposals to revise the EU's ePrivacy Directive could be the "catalyst" needed to get data-breach notification into UK law. Amendments to the directive would require "providers of electronic services...
[July 4, 2008, 9:16]
Tech Recycling Law Will Hit In New Year
Blog Green may be a vote winner but you wouldn’t know it from the government’s feeble attempts to enact the European tech recycling directive WEEE into UK legislation. Other states managed to roll out the directive on schedule but the UK is at least a...
[December 20, 2006, 8:40]
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. The UK has been very supportive of the directive, unlike fellow EU members such as Poland.
[February 4, 2005, 11:55]
Patent Injustice For Small Software Companies
News The proponents of the directive, which include the UK Patent Office (UKPO), claim the directive is needed to clarify the law and will not allow the patenting of software per se. Patents have become a hot topic over the last year, due to the...
[June 29, 2005, 18:15]
Tech Recycling Laws Delayed Yet Again
News The UK energy minister Malcolm Wicks issued a statement on Thursday admitting that the UK's implementation of the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive (WEEE) will definitely be delayed again.
[December 15, 2005, 14:10]
Tech Recycling Directive Faces Further Delays
News The UK government is believed to be on the verge of announcing that implementation of the Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) directive may be delayed again by up to six months. The directive was originally meant to become law in the...
[December 13, 2005, 16:30]
