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Nr. 31 (May 2003)
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Editorial |
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| By Alexander Schaub |
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Spotlight |
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| On the road to a Community Patent: a single jurisdiction and reduction in translation costs |
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Update on the Single Market |
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| ?Your Voice in Europe?: a new portal to give citizens a bigger role in policy making |
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| Internal Market Scoreboard (XII): National delays in implementing EU laws increase |
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| European Law implementation: Closer collaboration with Member States |
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Financial Services |
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| A new Directive on investment services: to protect investors and help investment firms operate EU-wide |
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| To increase investor protection and transparency: proposal for a Directive regarding securities on regulated markets |
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| Financial conglomerates: a Directive to stabilise the sector |
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| Market Abuse Directive: a major step towards integrated financial markets |
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| Motor Insurance: ensuring that Member States apply EU laws |
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| Success of the EU card fraud forum: concrete case studies |
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| Capital requirements: consultation results |
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| Occupational pensions: approval of proposed Directive |
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| The e-Commerce Directive applied to financial services: a Communication to clarify certain exceptions |
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Free movement of goods |
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| Raising unjustified barriers: infringement procedures |
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| Defective products: France must conform to the Court rule |
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| Barriers to free movement: three Member States before the Court |
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Free movement of services |
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| Obstacles to the posting of workers: Luxembourg and Austria before the Court of justice |
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| Private security companies: the Netherlands before the Court |
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| Sales promotion: Belgium brought before the Court of Justice |
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Diplomas and Professional Qualifications |
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| Implementation of Directives: Greece and Portugal to the Court of Justice |
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| Three professions face the same problem: failure of transposition in France |
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Company Law and Financial Reporting |
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| Company law and Corporate governance: Commission presents Action Plan |
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| Adoption of the Thresholds Directive: more SMEs partially exempted from financial reporting rules |
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| Modernising and updating accounting rules: final adoption of a key Directive |
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Public Procurement |
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| Contracts and concessions in Italy |
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| Collection and treatment of waste in Austria |
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| Public contracts for local services in Germany: two important Court rulings |
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| Infringements: three Member States before the Court |
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| Waste management contracts: Germany referred to the Court |
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Intellectual and Industrial Property |
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| Fighting piracy and counterfeiting: new proposal for a Directive |
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| Registration of Community designs: new system as from 1st April 2003 |
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| Legal protection of designs: seven States before the Court |
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| Legal protection of biotechnological inventions: Commission discusses with Member States and establishes expert group |
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| Recognition of directors as "authors" of films: not more difficult to distribute audiovisual works |
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Data Protection |
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| Data Protection Directive: first Report on the implementation |
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Medias and Information Society |
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| Electronic piracy must be stamped out: report on the ?conditional access? services Directive |
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New Organisation Chart |
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| Internal Market Directorate-General |
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Special feature |
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| Internal Market Strategy 2003-2006 |
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 Date :
May 2003 |
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[ Update on the Internal Market ] - [ Financial Services ] - [ Financial Reporting ] - [ Company Law and Corporate Governance ] - [ E-Commerce ] - [ Media ] - [ Copyright and Neighbouring Rights ] - [ Industrial Property ] - Free Movement of Capital ] - [ Free Movement of Goods ] - [ Services and Establishment ] - [ Professional Qualifications ] - [ Postal Services ] - [ Public Procurement ]
