In August, the Obama administration issued a directive aimed at overhauling the way federal agencies manage and preserve records.
Today David Cameron and Nick Clegg are opting out of a directive aimed at protecting teenagers and young women from being trafficked into the UK's burgeoning brothel and massage parlour industry.
The industry is now also facing heavier regulation from the European Union, which is in the process of finalising the alternative investment management directive, aimed at imposing tougher controls on private equity firms and hedge funds.
I am horrified about the EU directive aimed at controlling what we may be able to grow in the future - can you imagine not being able to legally exchange seeds without a licence?
Another would have been a covert infusion of money to Northern Rock, but legal advisers concluded that the European Union's market abuse directive, aimed at keeping shareholders apprised of important information, apparently prevented that.
The directive aimed to create a clear path to long-term residence and an EU 'civic citizenship' (European Commission 2003) in opposition to restrictive naturalisation laws (Bauböck, 2005b).
Furthermore, since 2010, they have been able to take advantage of the possibility of producing and selling cow's milk cheeses during the winter months under a government directive aimed at accommodating 'local, marginal and limited activity' (MOL).
The former judgement rolled back an earlier EU directive aimed at harmonizing data retention regimes across the bloc by asking Member States to impose obligations on providers of comms services to retain certain types of data for a period of between six months and two years.
It is therefore with great interest that we await the proposal for a directive aimed at putting Community measures in place to combat avian influenza.
This directive aims at mapping and reducing flood risk and, as one of the measures, mapping flood-prone areas categorised to low, medium (likely return period ≥100 years), and high probability.
