Sentences with phrase «of ec»

Pharmacists gave referrals for long - term birth control to 35.3 % of EC users and for STD screening to 3.2 %.

Pharmacists provided emergency contraception for future use to 1.1 % of EC users, often with a prescription for immediate use.

Recent studies have raised concerns about the efficacy of EC pills (particularly levonorgestrel products such as Plan B One - Step ® and its generics) when the user is above a certain weight.

The FDA's decision to reject over-the-counter sale of EC was based on concerns that increased access to EC could lead to unsafe sexual practices and the spread of STIs and HIV / AIDS, a notion that is contrary to the findings of our current study and the published literature.4 - 7, 13,20 - 22

Participants randomized to the advance provision group received a box that contained 3 packets of EC.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat said on Thursday that the matter of EC's partnership with Facebook, to encourage enrollment of young voters, will be discussed soon at a Commission meeting.

Preliminary results of the EC's competition sector inquiry on e-commerce indicate that these restrictions are applied throughout the EU, and that they could make cross-border shopping — and even online shopping in general — more difficult.

He also said the social media cell of the EC would go into the issue of App of politicians and political parties sharing user data without the users» consent.

Jolyon has brought a Judicial Review of the EC decision.

«Once the three are elected, they, along with LIC Chairman S K Roy, will elect Chairman of EC from among themselves on July 31,» Life Insurance Council Secretary General V Manickam told PTI today.

This month's installment of our EC Eats video series takes us to Scottsdale, Arizona, where the average price of renters insurance is only $ 12... but we found a margarita for much less than that!

It published the Green Paper on Damages Action for Breach of the EC Antitrust Rules in December 2005 and more recently (April 2006) the OFT has also published a discussion document, Private Actions in Competition Law: Effective Redress for Consumers and Business, on how to achieve the same aim in the UK.

Instead the court was of the view that whenever the sporting activity in question constitutes an economic activity, then it falls within the scope of the EC Treaty, which in turn means that «the conditions for engaging in it are... subject to all the obligations which result from the various provisions of the Treaty».

The impact of the EC regulations is addressed in several substantive contexts, including applications under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (Lord Collins's tantalising obiter dicta in Agbaje v Agbaje, and the subsequent case - law such as Traversa v Freddi [2011] 2 FLR 272) as well as in relation to enforcement of maintenance orders and the difficulty in that context of characterising English orders made in financial remedy proceedings.

In May 1990, in the case of Barber v Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Group Case C - 262 / 88 [1990] IRLR 240, [1990] 2 All ER 660, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that it was unlawful, under Art 141 of the EC Treaty for pension benefits to be payable on retirement at different ages for men and women.

Commercial undertakings participating in cartels have for a significant time been subject to Art 81 of the EC Treaty and, more recently, by the civil and administrative provisions of the Competition Act 1998 (CA 1998), enforced by the OFT, both of which prohibit anti-competitive agreements between undertakings.

CONFLICT BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND EC LAW As seen in previous monthly rants, the ECJ has handed down judgments in industrial action cases giving strong preference to basic rules of EC law where they are threatened by action taken by trade unions to protect wage rates in higher - wage economies from competition from organisations from lower - wage economies using their own national labour.

In Metallgesellschaft Ltd v Inland Revenue Commissioners [2001] All ER (EC) 496, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that the then applicable UK advance corporation tax regime (ACT) breached Art 52 of the EC Treaty.

In the civil context, the OFT states at para 3.6 of The Cartel Offence — Guidance on the Issue of No - action Letters for Individuals (OFT 513) that where an undertaking has been granted full civil leniency, ie 100 % reduction in fine, by the OFT in relation to enforcement of the CA 1998 or by the European Commission in relation to proceedings under Art 81 of the EC Treaty, it will normally be prepared to issue no - action letters to any employees, directors, ex-employees or ex-directors named in an application for no - action letters made by that undertaking on behalf of those named individuals, provided the usual conditions for the grant of a no - action letter are fulfilled.

That defence has hitherto failed when based on trade union action to protect wages but one interesting question in an «equal ops» case (shorn of the complicated arguments on the Posted Workers Directive) would be whether such a justification defence would be more likely to succeed if itself based on another area of EC law, ie the Equal Treatment Directive.

Those domestic provisions were the means whereby legislation gave effect to Art 141 of the EC Treaty, which secured the right to equal pay for equal work or work of equal value.

For practical purposes this means that in determining issues of EC law the English courts must follow the same principles as the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and apply any relevant rulings of the EC courts.

However, because the contract became a permanent contract, in respect of which an unfair dismissal claim could be pursued, to deny him such a remedy because he worked outside of GB would leave him without a remedy for the denial of an EC derived right.

Interpretation of EC law involves, therefore, applying a distinctive set of principles that do not simply replicate domestic principles of interpretation.

Increasingly, however, public international law is used indirectly — including through the medium of EC law — to considerable effect in the Administrative Court.

Conditions were laid down in the treaty as to the freedom of movement for workers (guaranteed by Art 39 of the EC Treaty) in respect of eight of the new countries (the A8) including Poland.

The green paper followed an earlier consultation paper, Study on the Conditions of Claims for Damages in case of Infringement of EC Competition Rules (2004), which reviewed systems for private redress in competition law throughout the EU and highlighted recognised gaps in the regulatory regime.

European Commission The European Commission issued a white paper last April (White Paper on Damages Actions for Breach of the EC Antitrust Rules).

Thus, member states are obliged to make rights under the Directive effective by providing an effective domestic law forum for enforcement, which can be done by modification, if necessary, to the extra-territorial limitations, which erect a barrier to the enforcement of EC rights.

This aimed to promote the rights of victims to compensation and argued that «in practice victims of EC antitrust infringements only rarely obtain reparation of the harm suffered.

Art 36 (1): «Within the framework of the provisions of this Agreement, there shall be no restrictions on freedom to provide services within the territory of the Contracting Parties in respect of nationals of EC Member States and EFTA States who are established in an EC Member State or an EFTA State other than that of the person for whom the services are intended.»

Since it was passed the Commission has opened proceedings under Art 226 of the EC Treaty against 25 EU member states in some 90 cases due to failures to implement the NRF correctly.

The members also went through a two step process that endorsed all of the actions of the EC as well as the election decision.

DDA 1995 is the means through which the disability - related aspects of the EC Equal Treatment Framework Directive 2000 / 78 / EC (Framework Directive), are implemented in the UK.

This certainly seems to stop any moves to extend the consultation requirement back into that «strategic or commercial decision», unless of course it is a «closure» case where UK law may now be in advance of EC law as a result of the decision of the EAT in UK Coal Mining Ltd v NUM [2008] IRLR 4.

Lankhorst - Hohorst GmbH v Finanzabmt Steinfurt: C - 324 / 00 [2003] STC 607, [2002] All ER (D) 169 (Dec) is a good example of the confidence that the ECJ has developed over recent years to upset member states» domestic taxation systems in the name of non-discrimination, and it represents the ECJ's typical pre-M & S approach to infringement of Art 43 of the EC Treaty by member states.

The action flows from the decision of the IOC, acting on the recommendation of the EC, to declare the plaintiff personae [sic] non grata within the Olympic Movement and to recommend that the members of the Olympic family not grant him any accreditation or have any dealings with him.

Bankruptcy — annulment — Centre of Main Interests for the purposes of the EC Regulation — «forum shopping».

Those referred to in Article 23 of this Statute and, in the cases provided for in Article 256 (2) of the EC Treaty, the parties to the proceedings before the General Court shall be entitled to lodge statements or written observations with the Court of Justice relating to questions which are subject to review within a period prescribed for that purpose.

The litigation concerns claims alleging that certain provisions of the corporation tax legislation relating to group relief for losses are in breach of the EC Treaty and / or the non-discrimination article of double taxation conventions.

The litigation concerns claims alleging that certain provisions of corporation tax legislation known as the Thin Capitalisation provisions are in breach of the EC Treaty and / or Double Taxation Conventions.

In the cases governed by Article 234 of the EC Treaty, the decision of the national court or tribunal shall, moreover, be notified by the Registrar of the Court to the States, other than the Member States, which are parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and also to the EFTA Surveillance Authority referred to in that Agreement which may, within two months of notification, where one of the fields of application of that Agreement is concerned, submit statements of case or written observations to the Court.

Arkin v Borchard and ors [2003] 2 Lloyd's Rep 225; [2004] 1 Lloyd's Rep 88, 636, [2005] EWCA Civ 655: Commercial Court litigation raising important competition law issues in the context of the activities of two liner shipping conferences; claim for damages based on alleged breaches of Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty.

Taken together, applicants invoked 11,973 separate claims involving one or more provisions of EC law (see the discussion of legal domains in Appendix C below).

The Appellant's appeals to the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal, where argument focused more on the terms of the EC Framework Directive, were unsuccessful.

In these, the European Commission raised 2,804 separate claims that Member States were in violation of one or more provisions of EC law.

In these, the European Commission raised 5,002 separate claims that Member States were in violation of one or more provisions of EC law (see the discussion of legal domains [matters] in Appendix C below).

The data set, which we make accessible here, contains the first 5,424 references filed, which invoke 8,638 separate claims of EC law.

This changed the role of the Competition Commission and created the Competition Appeal Tribunal to deal with competition issues — while maintaining the primacy of EC Law (Enterprise Act 2002 (EnA 2002), s 12).

Samengo - Turner v Guy Carpenter [2008] ICR 18 (Court of Appeal): anti-suit injunction to restrain proceedings brought in the USA in breach of EC right of employee to be sued in country of employment