Sentence examples for directives passed from inspiring English sources

This includes all the treaties, regulations and directives passed by the European institutions as well as the rulings of the Court of Justice.

A new directive passed by the government of President Thein Sein meant census staff could no longer write "Rohingya".

But a deadline to implement the emissions-cutting directive passed seven years ago, and Brussels ran out of patience.

Among the European Union initiatives to drive down noise is a directive, passed in 2002, that prompted member states to map noise levels in major cities.

The Lamfalussy report drew attention to the failure of the investment-services directive, passed in 1996, which was supposed to create a single securities market in the EU.

Then, when the tally of votes was published, it seemed as if they might have been miscounted, and the directive passed after all.

Female business owners are pursuing legal action to force agency compliance with Congress's directive, passed in 2000, that they receive 5percentt of federal contracts.

But the most onerous law of all has been the working-time directive, passed as early as 1993 as a health and safety measure to create a level playing field in the single European market.

"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.

Across Europe, it's all thanks to an EU directive passed in 2005.

As a result, such products were exempt from the EU's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive passed in 2006.