The controversial provisions in the European Union’s Database Directive have created considerable uncertainty for commercial producers of databases, while recent case law has emasculated much of the Directive. However, researchers and academics must still work in a restrictive copyright environment within Europe. This paper reviews the Directive in the light of two recent UK reports that sugges...

Legal basis for publishing the detailed guidelines: Article 47 of Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use and Article 51 of Directive 2001/82/EC on the Community code relating to veterinary medicinal products. This document provides guidance for the interpretation of the principles and guidelines of good manufacturing practice (GMP) for medicinal ...

Abstract For some time already, there have been concerns about TikTok’s business practices and their compliance with EU law. Different market investigations found out that Terms of Service do not comply the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, Contract Directive or Consumers Rights they also infringe General Data Protection Regulation Audiovisual Media Services Directive. This is particularly...

This Note argues that the optional inclusion of the development risks defense in Member State legislation undermines the Products Liability Directive by impeding harmonization of products liability laws in the Community. Part I sets forth the background and content of the Products Liability Directive. Part II discusses the implementation of the Products Liability Directive in Member State legis...

the design of microstrip antenna for improved bandwidth and directive gain is a challenge for researchers. This paper proposes the design of a Microstrip Square-Patch antenna with enhanced Bandwidth and Directive Gain. The design and simulation of this antenna has been done with the help of Ansoft HFSS. The simulated results give significant improvement in terms of directive gain and bandwidth....

A dvance directives indicate who a person would want to make treatment decisions on his or her behalf and what treatments a person would or would not want in various situations. 1,2 Completed by a person who can understand and appreciate the consequences of treatment decisions (i.e., when he or she is competent or capable), an advance directive is used at a time when the person has become incom...

The Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) aims to regulate insurance distribution in the EU regardless of channels and means. Although new technologies affect distribution, IDD does not explicitly this digital transformation. Insurers intermediaries must comply with detailed business conduct rules that aim counteract risks. However, exempts ancillary from its scope when they meet certain condi...

A new directive to all Catholic institutions within the Ft. W ayne-South Bend diocese may affect the future o f Mardi Gras at N otre Dame, according to Student Activities Director James M cDonnell. Bishop William McManus in­ itiated the directive, which pro­ hibits gambling for charitable causes. According to M cDonnell, the directive results from an incident that took place in Ft. W ayne last ...

The article represents the results of a phonetic experiment devoted to study pragmatically, and stylistically determined manifestation directive speech acts in modern German language. allowed establishing prosodic invariant act describing variant patterns realized diverse situational conditions which demonstrated different degree categoricalness revealed their differential character on level ex...

BACKGROUND Advance directives are widely promoted as a means to plan for patients' decisional incapacity, yet there is little evidence of their effectiveness. We devised a study to assess physicians' compliance with hypothetical advance directives and further examine their clinical reasoning. METHODS The study consisted of an analysis of a mailed written survey containing 6 hypothetical cases...