Sentence examples for directive setting from inspiring English sources

Far greater numbers have an advance directive, setting out the treatments they don't want to have, even to prolong life.

Last week, one of the most important reforms was finally agreed to by the EU's 25 member countries a directive setting out a single set of rules for mergers of companies across national borders.

The department has set up a new national directive setting conditions for using patients' personal information and has said it cannot provide data unless and until states sign it.

Among other things, this drastically reduces the need for unanimity in the council.Environmentally-minded Denmark has already allowed itself to be outvoted on a long-delayed, but crucial, directive setting common standards for cleaner car exhausts.

After the US debacle in Somalia, when an American-led force slaughtered hundreds of civilians in a crude bid to impose order, and lost 18 men in the process, the White House issued a directive setting out the conditions for future US peacekeeping operations.

Relevant recent developments were the adoption of regulation 1907/2006 (REACH), formally adopted on 18 December 2006, the proposal for a directive setting environmental quality standards for priority substances under the water framework directive (2006) or the new pesticide regulation 1107/2009 EEC [14, 15] (to be applied in the European Union from 14 June 2011).

In 1999, a European Union directive set strict air pollution limits for NO2 (the toxic gas formed from NOx emissions) and gave member states just over a decade to get ready.

A separate Fuel Quality Directive set the EU's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, requiring a 6% reduction in GHG intensity of EU transport fuels by 2020.

For instance, EU legislation such as the Renewable Energy Directive and the Fuel Quality Directive set out sustainability criteria for biofuels.

The Evaluation Policy and Executive Directive set out clear roles and responsibilities as well as management measures to strengthen the evaluation function in the organisation.

The difference between these systems was that the Zoonosis Directive set measures only for breeding flocks of poultry and FSCP for all levels of live animal production and also for cutting plants.