European lawmakers last week proposed a measure to require American Internet companies to receive permission from European officials before complying with lawful government requests for data.
The European Union wants to require American companies, led by Internet powerhouses like Google and Yahoo, to get the approval of European officials before complying with warrants issued in the United States seeking information, e-mails or search histories about European citizens.
BRUSSELS — Lawmakers here have introduced a measure in the European Parliament that could require American companies like Google and Yahoo to seek clearance from European officials before complying with United States warrants seeking private data.
Recent amendments to the law, which is aimed at expanding privacy rights, include a measure that could require American companies like Google and Yahoo to seek clearance from European officials before complying with United States warrants seeking to collect private data.
BRUSSELS — A panel of European Union lawmakers on Monday night backed a measure that could require American companies like Google and Yahoo to seek clearance from European officials before complying with United States warrants seeking private data.
Yet, in a serious reversal for Washington, that measure was restored after a panel of European Union lawmakers early last week backed a stipulation that could require American companies like Google and Yahoo to seek clearance from European officials before complying with United States warrants seeking private data.
Under Mr. Chilton's plan, the agency would allow the overseas affiliates a brief reprieve before complying with certain derivatives rules created under the Dodd-Frank Act, even though the banks have had three years to prepare for the law since it was passed after the financial crisis.
But Mr. Cahill had to issue his directive twice before Nepera complied -- the result of either a miscommunication, according to Nepera officials, or company arrogance, according to its critics.
In a memo to her employees last month, and later in an interview with The Times, she indicated that it was only a matter of time before she complied with the Supreme Court's nearly two-year-old decision ordering the E.P.A. to address the effects of greenhouse gases from vehicles and regulate them if necessary.
Unofficially, they need to be told an average of 3.7 times to do something before it registers and 5.2 times before they comply.
Because some ships do not fall under the rule until 2016, it could be 2021 before they comply.
