EU member States must implement these rules before 10 October 2006.

This requires modifying some of the rules governing its own internal carbon market, the EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

This means that cooperation with non EU countries should not be to the detriment of solidarity and common rules within the EU.

The EU would then gain both a political dimension and clear rules of procedure.

The rules vary among EU countries, but, in Germany, government approval implies parliamentary approval.

In the United Kingdom, rules on public procurement are mainly limited to those of the EU law.

Democracy in the EU cannot be guaranteed by the models and rules that apply in the member states.

Developing countries expressed the hope that the new EU GSP scheme would adopt user friendly rules of origin.

But the EU cannot realize this scenario as easily as the US can, because micro level rules in the EU generate friction that slows that kind of an expansion.

If the UK presents a unilateral list of proposals for new EU rules, the other 26 EU member states could be encouraged to engage in brinkmanship of their own.

The EU is also considering negotiating a free trade area with Georgia and relaxing visa rules for Georgian citizens.

The founding idea of the EU was that relations between states should be governed by rules, not raw power.

While the directive s rules governing migration of employed and self employed people hardly differ from previous EU law, the migration and social welfare rights of non working EU citizens have been significantly extended.

While constraints are a good idea, it is understandable that EU governments do not like them. Sinners do not like rules.

With regard to the EU market, current rules of origin tend to hinder utilization of EBA preferences in some manufacturing activities.

The U.S. and EU are two of the largest global import markets for tuna. Because new EU rules allow testing imported fish for mercury levels and other contaminants, import restrictions and declining demands may soon result.

All of these three regional arrangements have a supranational character, as in the case of the EU (which provides for common regional competition rules to be enforced by both the EU Commission and national competition authorities).

This would strengthen the EU Council s common position, which already defines general rules for the control of exports of military technology and equipment.

Such common rules applicable at the regional level are provided for (again with a strong EU inspiration) under some regional or subregional arrangements.

Agreed EU wide immigration rules are needed to reconcile shrinking Europe s hunger for imported labor with widespread fears of cultural tensions and social unrest.

The EU is much more than a set of rules governing the internal market and the free movement of goods, services, capital, and people.

Indeed, in the case of Cyprus, the EU wasn t even above breaking previous commitments vis à vis Turkey and unilaterally changing jointly agreed rules.

The first approach risks giving Russia easy access to all the benefits of cooperation with the EU, without insisting that Russia abide by stable rules.

Indeed, the adoption of fiscal rules was seen as a necessary substitute for the harsh discipline that financial markets had previously exercised over EU countries.

According to the analysts of the EU competition law rules, showing during the auction overall ranking instead of prices is preferable from competition law prospective.

The Council still has not extended the much stricter rules applied to vessels in EU waters to this region. Council Resolution on Fisheries and Combating Poverty.

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The EU would invite non EU states to do likewise

If the current EU budget rules are too rigid and are ignored in the face of a shock, then the door is open for imprudent fiscal behavior.

The Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system (rules and procedures) will become applicable to all feed and food operators in third countries exporting to the EU.

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The Agreements and the rules adopted under them were entirely separate from the EU structures, and led to the creation of the Schengen Area on 26 March 1995.

The rules are the rules.

Even in the absence of international rules, the EU and the US could take two actions to ensure that the TTIP does not have adverse consequences for developing economies.

Ukraine, a country of 47 million people, has seen itself as a prospective EU candidate since 2004, when the Orange Revolution forced the country s rulers to respect election rules.

But nor should they allow the US or the EU to use trade sanctions or other pressure to alter foreign countries labor market rules, environmen tal policies, or financial regulations.

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A Better EU Budget

Politicizing EU Competition Policy

Reset Turkey EU Relations