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European Commission refers Hungary to European Court of Justice over telecoms tax

The European Commission has referred Hungary to the European Court of Justice for failing to end a special tax on the turnover of telecommunications operators. The tax in question was introduced in October 2010 in response to the economic crisis of the country.
March 26, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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Aphaia at ACER’s one-year conference

Aphaia representatives Maria Barroso Gomes and Urša Primožič attended the Agency for the Cooperation of the Energy Regulators’ 1st annual conference that took place on 14 March 2012 at the Castle of Ljubljana.
March 16, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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UK internet providers could act as intermediaries in defamation disputes

The UK Government has suggested that Internet Service Providers could act as go-betweens between parties involved in defamation disputes online. The suggestion comes as part of the reform of English libel legislation. 
March 12, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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ACER is celebrating its 1st birthday

The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) is celebrating its first birthday. ACER became operational exactly one year ago, on 3 March 2011. 
March 2, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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Google’s new privacy policy not in compliance with EU law

The French data protection authority CNIL, tasked by EU privacy watchdogs to investigate Google’s new privacy policy has found that the policy does not seem to be in compliance with EU data protection legislation.
February 29, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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European Court of Justice to examine ACTA

The European Commission has asked the European Court of Justice is to examine whether ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is incompatible with the European Union’s fundamental rights and freedoms, the EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht has announced.
February 22, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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European Court of Justice rules against anti-piracy filter

The European Court of Justice has ruled that a social network cannot be made to install an anti-piracy filtering system.The judgment comes after SABAM, a Belgian institution that manages the copyright of  Belgian writers and composers wanted Netlog, a Belgian social networking website with some 94 million registered international users, to install a filtering system
February 20, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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European Commission says ‘no’ to new Danish SMS prices and higher Dutch telephony rates

The European Commission has once again exercised its power of suspending proposed telecoms regulatory measures and has halted the implementation of new SMS termination rates in Denmark and the proposed increase of fixed and mobile telephony termination rates in the Netherlands.
February 16, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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China refuses to comply with new EU airline emissions scheme

The Chinese government has barred their airlines from complying with the new EU legislation that would see all airlines operating from European Union airports pay an emission charge.
February 10, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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Google refuses EU data protection authorities’ request for a pause in the implementation of new privacy policy

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, a group of 27 national data protection and privacy authorities that advises the European Commission on privacy issues, has written to Google Inc. to ask for a pause in the implementation of Google’s new privacy policy while the group checks for possible consequences for Google’s users in the
February 7, 2012 Comments (0) Share