Sentence examples for passing directives from inspiring English sources

But in the days after the vote, the Brussels machinery has acted normally, approving mergers, looking into state-aid cases, holding meetings and passing directives.

This lacuna has been addressed by the recently passed Directive on services in the internal market which aims to liberalise the cross border provision of services.

But under the terms of the plea bargain Vlok, in the late 1980s a hardline minister who has since admitted he passed on directives from the cabinet for the police to "eliminate" anti-apartheid activists, is obliged to assist in any future prosecutions over crimes he knows about.

Criticized by groups like Amnesty International as "severely flawed" and an erosion of human rights standards, the so-called return directive was passed in the European Parliament here by a 369-to-197 vote, with 106 legislators abstaining.

In 2000, it passed a directive banning age discrimination.

Last July it passed a directive banning the sending of e-mail unless the recipient has specifically "opted in" to receive it.

The issue could take on more urgency if lawmakers in Brussels passed a directive, a form of binding European law not subject to local interpretation.

Last July, the European Union passed a directive banning mass e-mails unless the recipient has "opted-in" to the sender's list.

Last year, the European Commission passed a directive requiring listed companies to disclose project-level payments, such as those made by Shell and ENI for Oil Block OPL 245 in Nigeria.

The success of his xenophobic party in Austria last year pushed the EU to pass a directive, offering more legal protection to minorities, that all applicant countries must accept before they can join.Special scholarships mean more Gypsy children are staying at school and entering university; the University of Cluj, in Romania, has 150 Gypsy students this year, a previously unheard-of number.

Turkey passed a directive on waste electric and electronic equipments in May 2012, which has been in effect since May 2013.