There are also concerns about patient privacy, liability, and consumer safety, as reflected in very stringent data protection directives and regulations, at the EU and national levels [ 4].
Since a "regulation" of the EU is to be adopted as national law without any changes, it is more stringent than a "directive", which requires transposition into the national body of laws.
All new cars sold from 1 January 2015 must meet the Euro 6 emissions standard, a stringent European Union directive to cut exhaust pollutants which targets a cut in nitrogen dioxide, seen as an air pollutant.
"Food regulations, in particular the EU's novel-foods directive, prescribe stringent environmental and safety evaluation before anything is introduced to the market.
Some privacy advocates seem determined to move the U.S. in the direction the European Union has charted with its "data directives" and more stringent privacy controls.
The bosses blame a flood of European Union directives, made even more stringent when turned into British law and regulations, and applied relentlessly.
In two executive orders and three presidential directives, Obama laid out stringent lobbying limits that will bar any appointees from seeking lobbying jobs while he is president and will ban gifts from lobbyists to anyone in the administration.
He also often failed to activate his body camera and, according to department officials, had been ordered to record every contact with civilians — a directive that was more stringent than the policy applied to other officers.
A spokesperson at the Hungarian prime minister's office rejected suggestions of any conflict of interest in spending public money, stating that the government had adopted relevant EU legislation and domestic legislation with "more stringent rules regarding conflicts of interest than the directives".
