Soon afterward, Mr. Faber received German citizenship under Hitler's 1943 directive, which had not been repealed.
(The first was the rejection of the Data Retention directive, which had been favoured particularly by the UK government).
Importantly, neither of them affects the very definition of waste as laid down in the Directive, which has "to discard" at its core.
Still, trying to make sense of the directive, which has been passed down only by word of mouth so far, is a bit like reading a cloud.
Most crucial, said Chapron, has been the EU habitats directive which has compelled member states to protect and revive rare species.
What is the law when a private party seeks to invoke, against another private individual, the right to cancel a contract derived from an EC Directive which has not been implemented into domestic law within the required time limits?
The recording industry lobbied heavily for the new copyright directive, which had been blocked in the past by a coalition of smaller European countries that see the extension as harmful to innovation.
Permanent secretaries are believed to be exempt from the president's new directive, which has angered many civil servants, who claim almost two thirds of permanent secretaries are over 60.
Bigg's brought a counterclaim before the national court containing similar allegations against Colim and argued in its defense that the provisions concerned could not be invoked against it, because they constituted "technical regulations" within the meaning of Directive 83/189/EEC (the "Directive"), which had not been notified to the Commission.
The following analysis of the recent cases of Océano,i Bellone and Centrosteel will try to shed some light on several difficulties that arise when judges nonetheless try to give some effect to a directive, which has not been transposed in a timely manner, governing the relation between individuals.
