Sentence examples for directive before from inspiring English sources

(1) Do Articles 5 and 189 EEC preclude Member States from adopting a provision contrary to a Directive, before the period for transposing it has expired?

EU states still have to back the directive before it becomes law, but commission sources said they were optimistic that action would continue to move quickly.

Europe's attempt to update the rules, however, has become highly controversial.In November the European Parliament's culture and education committee is due to move forward on its proposed "audiovisual media services" directive, before sending it to the full parliament in December.

Pat McCrory, the Republican governor, said he would review the directive before deciding on the state's next steps and that North Carolina would meet the Monday deadline to respond.

But the UK has been accused of bad behaviour over the directive before, having played hard ball in negotiations to get an exemption from its binding annual 1.5% energy saving obligation.

The sub-committee, which will take evidence from City minister Lord Myners on Tuesday, plans to publish some recommendations before 2 December, the last day that Sweden can present its amendments to the directive before its presidency expires.

Healthcare assistances, Physiotherapists, General Practitioners (GPs), Emergency Medical Technicians and Occupational Therapists were all aware of the programme and as it became imbedded into practice, these health professionals were actively seeking the residents advance care directives before making decisions regarding their care.

While it is clear that it is highly desirable for patients to undertake advance directives before dementia has reached advanced stages, in many cases, treatment preference made might not be respected because of patients' difficulties in expressing preferences and nursing home attitudes that do not validate advance directives in a positive way.

In that case, the Homeland Security Department had imposed an unusual directive days before the 2008 election requiring high-level approval before federal agents nationwide could arrest fugitive immigrants including Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Obama's late father.

"There is little time to get the directive passed before this parliament comes to an end and the whole process has to start again," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of health charity Ash.

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.