EU : Official Journal of the EU publishes several legislative texts

Several European legislative texts have been published in the EU Official Journal including the emblematic "Services" directive and the "Reach" regulation. The legislation on the European globalisation adjustment fund (see story n°070001) and the European institute on gender equality (see story n°070005) are dealt with separately. We propose a cursory review of these publications. (Ref. 070006)
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“Services” directive. Directive 2006/123 of December 12, 2006 on services in the internal market was published in the edition of December 27, 2006. This directive liberalising services while respecting national labour legislation of member countries is summarized in one of our previous dispatches ( v. dispatch n° 061254).

REACH regulation. This lengthy regulation establishing a prior authorisation procedure for dangerous substances and imposing on producers the presentation of a substitution pl

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