The measure was an amendment to a Europe-wide directive that had been approved by the European Council of Ministers to ease cross-border mergers and acquisitions in Europe.
A member of the public lodges a complaint that a member state has failed to comply with the obligations of a Europe-wide directive, say on environmental protection.
31, as prescribed since 1979 in a Europe-wide directive.
In the White House, it was Alberto Gonzales, counsel to the president, who issued a staff-wide directive this week that any records relevant to the investigation not be destroyed.
Pursuant to a government-wide directive issued in May, police seeking sophisticated and potentially lethal hardware like shotguns or explosives must now provide a "detailed justification for acquiring the controlled equipment".
The Commission has argued for a Europe-wide directive on legal highs because it says different approaches across the EU "can impede their legitimate use… and fragment the internal market".
Or there was that time at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on the day before Thanksgiving, when an agency-wide directive came down from Transportation Security Administration headquarters.
In a wide-ranging directive issued on Friday, Janet Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, asked her staff to review the immigration laws that affect surviving noncitizen spouses.
Most of the 22 remaining employees under review identified themselves in response to a June 2004 agency-wide directive from Zerhouni, which asked all employees who had failed to file disclosures of outside activities to step forward.
He said his planned Europe-wide directive would have been aimed at making tobacco products less attractive by introducing bigger health warnings on cigarette packets and removing flavoring from some lines that are popular with young women smokers.
Additionally, physicians are subject to a wide array of clinical directives – a 2006 study [ 29] identified over 340 AAP policy statements alone, of which 57 were deemed broadly relevant to pediatric practice.
