Political and Legal Aspects of Recent Regional Secessionist Trends in some EU Member States (I)

2017 ◽  
pp. 69-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Piris
Keyword(s):  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States

Enforcing EU environmental law outside Europe? The case of ship dismantling

elni Review ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Thomas Ormond
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Hazardous Waste ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Merchant Ship ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Third World

There is a significance of EU Member States and European owners in the world of shipping: about 23 % of the merchant ships worldwide fly the flags of Member States and approximately 40 % of the world tonnage is owned by companies domiciled in Europe. What happens to those ships at the end of their lives may be seen as a striking example for the export of an environmental problem from the First to the Third World: More than 80 % of the international merchant ship tonnage is nowadays broken up in South Asia, especially in Bangladesh and India. Today’s end-of life ships do not only consist of steel – which makes recycling profitable – but also contain more or less large quantities of waste oil, asbestos, PCB and other hazardous materials. The recycling countries and particularly Bangladesh rarely have the means and the will to avoid pollution with such hazardous waste and to protect workers’ health adequately. This failure, which is evident in many developing countries, is one of the reasons why the EU transposed the so-called Basel Ban Amendment to the Basel Convention on transboundary waste movements into its law and strictly prohibited since 1998 the export of all hazardous waste and waste for disposal to non-OECD countries. But the export ban, as the article explains in more detail, is virtually ineffective in relation to European ships that go for dismantling to South Asia. This article focuses on legal aspects of the ship dismantling problem as an example of the difficulties of applying and enforcing EU law especially in a maritime context, before turning to the current initiatives to regulate the recycling of ships at international and European level.

scholarly journals Tax and legal aspects of Societas Cooperativa Europaea

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 107-114
Author(s):  
Danuše Nerudová
Keyword(s):  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Business Conditions

The tax and legal aspects of the Societas Cooperativa Europaea are presented in the paper. The purpose of the establishment of this new law vehicle on the internal market is to create equal business conditions also for the subjects associated in cooperatives on EU level, and to improve and increase their competitiveness in the global economy. The aim of the paper is to introduce the statute of Societas Cooperativa Europaea and to highlight the selected tax consequences connected with its implementation into the Czech tax law and also present the main problems which can arise during the implementation process also in other EU member states.

Doing Everything You Can, but Not (yet) Getting it Right: Challenges to Brussels' Great Expectations for Water Quality1

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franca Angela Buelow
Keyword(s):  
Water Status ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Eu Water Framework Directive ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
European Water ◽  
Improve Water Quality ◽  
Governance Architecture

To arrive at a good status of all European water bodies is the main objective of the European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD). Since its adoption in 2000, the policy has fundamentally changed the institutional, procedural and organizational structures of Member States' water management, leading to an Europeanization of national legislation and decision-making structures. The case of WFD implementation in Schleswig-Holstein is an example of the policy's highly innovative governance architecture that unfortunately is not (yet) able to take that one last hurdle: to improve water quality and establish a good water status across EU Member States by 2015 or 2027.

BIOECONOMY DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL BASED ON MORE EFFICIENT LAND USE IN THE EU

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina PILVERE ◽  
Aleksejs NIPERS ◽  
Bartosz MICKIEWICZ
Keyword(s):  
Green Growth ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Growing Stock ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Key Industries ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Production Resource

Europe 2020 Strategy highlights bioeconomy as a key element for smart and green growth in Europe. Bioeconomy in this case includes agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and pulp and paper production, parts of chemical, biotechnological and energy industries and plays an important role in the EU’s economy. The growth of key industries of bioeconomy – agriculture and forestry – highly depends on an efficient and productive use of land as a production resource. The overall aim of this paper is to evaluate opportunities for development of the main sectors of bioeconomy (agriculture and forestry) in the EU based on the available resources of land. To achieve this aim, several methods were used – monographic, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, statistical analysis methods. The findings show that it is possible to improve the use of land in the EU Member States. If all the Member States reached the average EU level, agricultural products worth EUR 77 bln would be annually additionally produced, which is 19 % more than in 2014, and an extra 5 billion m3 volume of forest growing stock would be gained, which is 20 % more than in 2010.

Vocational Education in the New EU Member States

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Canning ◽  
Martin Godfrey ◽  
Dorota Holzer-Zelazewska
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
New Eu Member States
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