He counts off the nine "legitimate" state organisations that may check on goods being brought into the country--and they do so, searching for some technicality under which they can penalise the importer and demand payment for exemption.
The EU should reject Gazprom's demands for exemptions from the rules mandating third-party access to pipeline infrastructure and instead demand that Gazprom sorts out its own storage facilities.He concludes:Gazprom is not the "reliable supplier" that the Soviets may once have been (in the eyes of Western Europe).
"I don't think this decision itself is likely to really bolster or support demands for exemptions or accommodations to allow people to violate other generally applicable laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination," she said.
Requesting permission has become too routine to inspire a demand for an exemption, he said.
He argued that Britain "is already in a position to control its own borders", but indicated it would probably be possible to accommodate the UK's demand for an exemption from "ever closer union" and greater powers to set domestic VAT rates.
Gibney's film argues that one of the darkest days in American public life came in 1993, when the Internal Revenue Service caved in to the Scientologists' demand for tax-exemption, which current leader David Miscavige greeted with a victory rally resembling a Nuremberg Oscar ceremony.
Many people dismissed this as teen-age "identity fashion," but most saw it as the symbolic tip of an Islamist iceberg — which in a way it was, since it carried demands for exceptional exemptions from French law and common secular values.
Permitting some forms of discrimination opens the door to more and more demands for further exemptions from the equality laws, as we've seen with religious registrars refusing to perform civil partnerships and religious solicitors refusing to handle gay asylum cases – all in the name of their "conscientious belief".
While proponents argue that faith-based organizations deserve "equal treatment" when it comes to disbursing public funds, their demand for a Title VII exemption for religious groups -- an exemption whose limits will be difficult to define -- amounts, opponents say, to a form of preferential treatment.
That's because all except the most radical campaigners for women bishops accept the demand from traditionalists for exemptions from serving under them.
