"However, we have advised communications service providers that the UK Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009 remain in force".
Instead the Home Office is proposing that communications companies should be required to hold even more information than they do at present, under the Electronic Communications Data (EC Directive) Regulations 2008.
12.01pm: Here's what Carol Day, WWF-UK's solicitor, had to say: The Red Tape Challenge suggests that the Habitats Directive Regulations were a 'burden on business', but when we asked Defra we were told that the review had no submissions to substantiate that point and found no evidence of delays to decision-making or gold-plating.
Within the Nitrates and Water Framework Directive regulations the policy tool is designed to help achieve good status by 2015 in water bodies at risk from eutrophication.
More importantly it's also a power that the British courts have had since the 2002 E-Commerce Directive Regulations (with ISP's being similarly liable for inaction): the new legislation simply creates a DMCA-style process for making take-down requests easier to issue.
Therefore, their preparation and use are regulated by a number of EU directives, regulations and rules that have been adopted by member states.
Teachers have been compelled to conform to a ceaseless flow of directives, regulations and notes of guidance.
During 2005 and 2006, the flow of EU directives, regulations, and associated reports, green papers, and communications continued at the same rate as the 2,800 a year chalked up in 1996, when Jacques Delors was at the helm of the European commission and the EU project was being widely hailed as unstoppable.
One prominent example is the protection of biodiversity which is agreed by a range of European Directives, Regulations, Action Plans, strategies and conventions [3].
In addition to log KOW and BCF, information on biomagnification in aquatic and terrestrial food chains can provide important information for assessing bioaccumulation potential of chemicals in many directives, regulations, guidelines or other official documents.
When we talk about tightening directives and regulations, we should always be well aware that a directive or regulation is only as effective as the instruments that ultimately verify its observance, in this case the market-surveillance mechanisms in the Member States.
