Every time you reveal your age it prompts an "Oh, so young!" followed by a list of directives.
One colleague, a devoted and highly respected clinician in his department, admitted that he found this growing list of directives from others exasperating.
"In the name of social protection, the E.U. has promoted unnecessary measures that impose burdens on businesses and governments, and can destroy jobs," he argued, adding a list of directives that he would like to scrap.
Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama's chief of staff, told the New York Times last week that the administration was reviewing a list of presidential orders and directives "to get the job done across a front of issues".
"We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues," said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.
High on the list of requests in an April 2009 directive covering the Saharan west African countries, including Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal, was information about the activities of fighters returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
European leaders are considering an expansion of the list of chemicals covered by the directive — and public support for doing so has become a criterion for judging companies on Greenpeace's green electronics guide.
The habitual residence test, it seems, is rather fiddly to pin down, as it is based on European Court of Justice case law rather than a copper-bottomed list of requirements specified in a directive.
Accordingly, OLO meets the full list of harmonized standards that the directive requires, including ISO 13485 (quality management system), ISO 14971 (medical device risk management), CEN 13612 (medical device performance evaluation), and various safety, stability and labeling requirements," he further says on that.
Among these steps are these two directives: "Make a list of all persons we had harmed, and become willing to make amends to them all"; and "Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others".
Furthermore, a project has been planned with the aim to evaluate the use of bioanalytical methods for the detection of the pharmaceuticals 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2) and 17βestradiol (E2) which are included in the WFD "Watch List" of emerging pollutants foreseen by the Directive 2013/39/EU.
