But a deadline to implement the emissions-cutting directive passed seven years ago, and Brussels ran out of patience.
Another correspondent pointed out how often press aides deliver notes to Spicer while he's at the lectern, and how obediently Spicer seems to respond to the notes' directives, cutting a response short or abruptly ending a briefing.
The latest ructions at Viacom come after Dauman himself was sued by an ex-girlfriend of Redstone's, Manuela Herzer, in a nearly identical claim: Herzer alleged Dauman had tricked Redstone into removing her from his advance health directive – and subsequently cutting her out of his will.
Since Smolensk the Kremlin has dished out still more directives, such as cutting the tiny regional airlines that fly very old planes.
The FSCP for broilers encompasses breeding and commercial flocks, hatcheries and, unlike the Zoonosis Directive, also poultry meat cutting plants.
The troop withdrawal from Afghanistan through 2014 is a presidential directive, and the Army is cutting the number of combat brigades in Europe in half over the next five years.
The VA responded by issuing a new directive that explicitly prevented doctors from cutting state-level medical marijuana patients off from prescription drugs, and instead requires monitoring of all cannabis consumption.
Moreover, and oddly, France and Germany, for all the enthusiasm they lavish on the single currency, lag behind in the transposition of many single-market directives into national law and in cutting back subsidies.They should try harder.
The government has issued a number of security directives, limiting carry-on luggage, banning all cutting devices and increasing the number of passengers whose checked bags must be searched or X-rayed.
The real spur behind the coalition's attack on the working time directive is to be seen by business to be cutting the much hated but vastly over-hyped "red tape" that is supposed to stifle entrepreneurship.
"He is cutting unnecessary spending, focusing on delivering essential public services, and has issued a directive to enhance revenue collection," he said.
