The EU Reinsurance Directive

Harmful impact of EU clinical trials directive.

The New EU Directive Concerning the Legal Protection of Databases

On September 14, 1995, the Commission accepted the Common Position and transmitted its opinion to the European Parliament. The European Parliament dealt with the Common Position in a second reading which began on September 21, 1995. On December 14, 1995, it adopted a decision approving the Common Position subject to eight minor drafting changes. The Commission’s opinion on the European Parliame...

The EU Insurance Mediation Directive – Bureaucracy or Opportunity?

The insurance mediation directive of the EU contributes to the recent regulation of financial services markets in order to improve customer protection. Many financial services providers as well as insurance intermediaries fear expensive documentation overhead. In this paper, we argue that the documentation requirements offer a variety of chances. As neither the directive nor national law explic...

Implications of the EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC

The strongly discussed EUData Retention directive 2006/24/EC released in 2006 requires the operators of publicly accessible electronic communication networks to retain traffic and location data for various services provided in order to serve the investigation, detection, and prosecution of serious crime. In this paper, we focus on the regulations of the directive in the areas of Internet access...

Knowledge Representation and Modelling Legal Norms: The EU Services Directive

This paper presents an ontology based model which assists the user in formally specifying her or his information demand and in turn to deliver information across diverse authorities and local and functional jurisdictions, but individualised to the user’s needs. For integration of information from and about different sources and relevant authorities, an information layer model is used. Text modu...