Sentences with phrase «individual member states»

R&D policy mostly remains the turf of individual member states, with distinct programs and rules.

A collection of 27 individual member states brings a richness and diversity of culture.

That left lots of discretion to individual member states as to the terms of scope of the insurance cover they provided.

That's because it is designed to deal with problems that extend past the borders of individual member states.

Given that the withdrawal agreement itself shall be concluded following the consent of the European Parliament and a Qualified Majority Vote in the Council, might the need to firstly agree upon guidelines in the European Council provide the only formal veto point for individual member states in the process?

Dimas is the EU's point person in getting individual member states to conform with EU law on GMOs.

The governance of the Eurozone will need to concentrate on helping individual member states better internalise their obligations to other states rather than on creating ever more coercive enforcement mechanisms.

«So as not to undercut the position of the Union, there will be no separate negotiations between individual member states and the United Kingdom,» the paper reads.

To avoid lengthy deadlocks, the European Commission proposed in 2010 to let individual member states ban a given crop on their territory, while the commission would still grant pan-European marketing approvals based on the European Food Safety Authority's scientific opinion.

The European Parliament has passed a new law which allows individual member states more flexibility in their regulation of genetically modified crops.

If they do so, it won't be Brussels stating GMO risks are unacceptable, but individual member states deciding for themselves — no doubt weighing in... Continue reading →

Mickael Laurens, head of the Law Society of England & Wales and the Law Society of Northern Ireland's joint office in Brussels, said: «If the directive ceases to apply on an exit from the EU — depending on negotiations — legal services access will operate on the basis of World Trade Organization rules and any further unilateral market opening measures taken by individual member states.»

A directive, which usually sets out high level policy objectives and confers a wide discretion as to how individual member states implement them.

However individual Member States can choose (and some have) to derogate from this by writing a lower age limit into their laws.

This does not help, as the change in European legislation refers to the EU - wide deadline, rather than the domestic deadlines of individual member states.

Widely seen as the «backbone» of Europe's economy, small - scale, modest businesses represent 90 percent of all business in the European Union and for individual member states, SMEs are vital for economic growth.

The current system of patents granted by the EPO and validated in individual member states will remain available, though these European bundle patents may be subject to the jurisdiction of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) instead of the national courts of each member state.

Earlier figures covering January marked an important milestone in the region's battle against deflation, showing all of the monetary bloc's individual member states had recorded price rises for the first time since February 2013.

David Davis told us that we would go to individual member states to strike up trade agreements.

The arrangement, however, could represent the proverbial «spanner in the works» for David Cameron's plans to repatriate powers from the European Union to individual member states.

Beginning with Euro 5 (adopted in 2009), standards have been issued by direct Regulations, which are directly enforceable in all Member States, as opposed to Directives, which must be transposed into each individual Member State.

As costs fall and generation capacity increases, subsidies and price support from the European Union and individual member states are now expiring, and the first self - standing offshore wind projects have been bid upon, signaling the beginning of a new phase.

Though the range of arguments is wide and varied depending on the circumstances of the case and the underlying Investment Treaties, the overarching theme is simply that EU Law reigns supreme in relations between Member States and overrides all international law commitments that individual Member States - and the EU itself in the case of the Energy Charter Treaty - have entered into.

Because of the complexity inherent in any international litigation scenario, coupled with the uneven and patchy implementation of EU privacy and data protection law across various EU Member States, any analysis of the e-discovery and privacy challenges posed by the scenarios really does depend on the way that individual member states have constructed and implemented their own legal frameworks regarding privacy and data protection.

The reason why it was foreseeable that issues relating to Gibraltar would be placed on the table at the outset is because once the guidelines have been negotiated and concluded by consensus in the European Council, there exists no means for an individual Member State to veto the withdrawal agreement, with a Qualified Majority in the Council and the consent of the European Parliament sufficient to conclude the deal.

In practice, this may mean that each individual member state would have to barter an immigration deal with the UK to guarantee its citizens» rights.

the EPSR must not significantly affect the financial equilibrium of individual Member States (recital 19).

The Supreme Court have taken an acrobatic journey around the legislation, and concluded that the Directives do not permit the individual member states to provide for compensation in accordance with any such law that they may choose.

Unlike the bundle of European rights, a unitary patent will not require validation in each individual member state.

Martha Grekos, partner and Head of Planning at Irwin Mitchell in London, says the EU does not tend to legislate in the area of planning law, leaving this to the individual member states, but points out that where EU has a greater effect on planning is in the area of environmental protection.

Each individual member state has its own rules about separation, divorce, maintenance of spouses and children, custody and guardianship and other family law matters.