In a message dated 04/04/2005 18:59:44 GMT Standard Time, j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk writes:
In theory, the Commission can take an errant government to the European Court, and it does happen in practice. But often, the Commission accepts that the deviation is justified or inevitable. -- John, As interesting one this: - it is the Commission that propose (and in reality largely draft) EC Directives in the first place. - it is the Commission that take Member States to task when they fail to impliment Directives by the due date. When one Member State fails to implement a Directive then that MS looks to be acting in a tardy way. But when multiple MSs fail to implement the same Directive then that draws into question as to whether the Directive was really thought through before it was published in the OJEC. So who drafted the legislation in the first place and who decides whether to prosecute? Just a thought Richard Hughes ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
