"If it were solely up to me, the directives mandated by the legislation would have been different," said Representative John L. Mica, Republican of Florida and chairman of the House aviation subcommittee, which held the hearing this morning.
Policy directives mandating the delivery of health care in an integrated fashion are needed to normalize integration as a requirement, rather than an optional extra.
The EU's 2009 renewable energy directive mandates that from 2020, 10% of all fuel for transportation must come from renewables.
Transport fuels are the only European sector in which emissions are still rising and the directive mandates a 6% reduction in their greenhouse gas intensity by 2020.
The Directive mandates participatory river basin management planning across the EU aiming at the delivery of better policy outputs and enhanced implementation.
While the European Union's 1993 Working Time Directive mandates a paid vacation of at least 20 days, recession-weary Portugal has canceled 4 of its 13 public holidays for the next 5 years, according to the Telegraph.
For example, to accelerate patient care timelines, a national VA directive mandates that specialists address electronic consult requests from primary care providers within 7 days.
Fortunately, up popped climate change in the shape of an EU directive mandating that energy-performance certificates (EPCs) be made available whenever a property changes hands.
Instead of dictating exactly how individual countries should go about this, the directive mandated that member states should pass national legislation to implement the new procedures.
Man behind "Great Firewall of China": a directive mandating that all PCs sold in China include sophisticated software that filters out all "unhealthy information" (i.e. Dalai Lama, Tiananmen Square, Falun Gong) from world's largest Internet user population, an estimated 420 million people.
