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...in market abuse is insider trading. Information unavailable to the public is used by few individuals in financial markets dealings, taking advantage of the larger public investors. In some other instances, the financial instruments price setting mechanism has been distorted or false and misleading information released to the public , the motive being to benefit just a few in these markets (Mantysaari, 2009, pg. 122). The Market Abuse Directive (MAD) was formulated and implemented to counter such activities and promote fairness and integrity in the European financial markets. When integrity is upheld, investors are confident in carrying out their business. The directive therefore is...
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...stakeholders in the whole process and they are likely to play a part in the implementation of the directive.
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The supplement market has been growing wide in the UK and in the recent past it has growth to be a multibillion industry which has employed many people and at the same time provided health benefit to majority of the population. The spending in the industry has also been growing rapidly with the increased consumption in the industry owing to the health benefit of the supplements. There has been increased spending on the food supplement and herbal remedies in the UK and in the whole Europe in...
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...workers from adverse health and safety risks the directive 93/104/EC lays down provisions for a maximum 48 hour working week (including overtime), rest time and breaks and a minimum of four weeks salaried leave per year. It covers all segments of activity, both public and private. A host of areas, such as air, rail, road, sea, inland waterway and lake transport, ocean fishing, other tasks at sea and doctors in training, etc, were brought within its compass by an amendment agreed in 2000.Till then these categories were exempted in the1993 Directive. The Member States took steps to implement these inclusions by 1 August 2003 (for doctors...
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...of establishing services and the free movement of these services between Member States. To achieve this goal, this directive encompasses certain important principles, which will be discussed in the sequel.
The first of these is that the implementation of the application of the country of origin principle, which requires that only the law of the country in which the service provider is located should be applicable. Further, it enjoins upon the Member States not to restrict in a discriminatory way services from a provider established in another Member State. Second, empowering citizens to use the services provided by any other Member State without being delayed or discouraged by restrictive measures...
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...Chapter Introduction Research Proposal 1 Problem ment The Road Transport Directive (RTD) is aggressively pushing the cause of Working time rules to all transport companies, come April 2005, over a time period of 26 weeks, by which all logistics companies in the UK have to embrace the guidelines. It basically consists of a reduced lorry drivers time limits, from as high as 84 hours a week, to 48 hours a week. In doing so, it escalates costs. As a result, current distribution facilities are inadequate to cope with this demand. Already there is a shortage of highly-skilled HGV drivers. The question being raised is, what survival skills will...
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...Gend case, after the Court took its decision the member states accepted it without further ado, perhaps because the practical impact of this doctrine initially seemed relatively minor. It is more difficult for member states to avoid implementing directly effective Treaty provisions, embodying policies to which they were already committed in principle (see Pollack, 2003, for a discussion of the importance of the low visibility of Court decisions during the early phase of integration).
If the attribution of direct effect to Treaty provisions began the transformation of EC law, its extension to some categories of Community secondary legislation fundamentally altered the...
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...[1963] ECR 1; [1963] CMLR 105.
The van Gend en Loos case dealt with Treaties, where it was said that Treaty provisions can be immediately enforced in national courts by individual applicants if the provisions were clear, negative, unconditional, containing no reservation on the part of the Member State and not dependent on any national implementing measure.
Van Duyn made it clear that this was also true of Directives. If Directives are binding then it is possible that they will be relied upon in national courts, but clearly each case will turn on its own facts.
Therefore since Z works for a Council this can be construed as an emanation of the...
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...and the supremacy of EC law over national law, via its case law. These fundamental principles have proved to be instrumental in furthering European integration (The contribution made by the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Communities).
Individuals can rely on these principles to invoke EC law, in the national courts. In addition, they can demand the rescinding of any national law that is contrary to EC law. Moreover, the ECJ had established the principle of the free movement of workers within the Community, which in its opinion constituted a fundamental freedom in the EU (The contribution made by the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Communities).
In our problem, the...
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... under the European Union treaties enabling the adoption of laws by qualified majority vote on issues concerning the health and safety of workers within the union, the Working Time Directive (WTD) was from the very outset a controversial law, with the United Kingdom in particular taking great exception to the extent of sabotaging its implementation through legal battles that threatened the foundation of the union itself. Against the tide of the contrary wishes of the UK government among other dissidents that saw the law as an imposition of Social Chapter-style obligations on sovereign states with targets to achieve through the back door, the directive (EWTD), nonetheless, came into force under the Working Time Regulations 1998... , the Social...
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