Existing Legislation

Existing legislative instruments, such as Directives relating to classification, packaging and labelling, are being examined with a view to possible modification for the purpose of regulating EDs. 

Do all waste-handling procedures comply with existing legislation Provide confirmation of compliance. Identify the risk category. 

Prominent within the EU organizational structure is the European Commission. The major function of the European Commission is to propose new EU legislation and to ensure enforcement of existing legislation. European drug law, therefore, comes under the auspices of the Commission. 

January Officials in the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, California, propose municipal ordinances that would ban the sale of so-called ultracompact handguns that can be easily carried in people s pockets. (Due to their good quality construction, such guns are not covered under existing legislation banning Saturday Night Specials. )... 

The development of concentration techniques for multicomponent mixtures present in different environmental systems must be effect-oriented in the first approach and compound-directed in the control phase because of the existing legislation. 

EC Directive 2008/50/EC Merges existing legislation into one directive... 

Further developments took place in 2006 when Canada and Paraguay passed organic legislation and other countries elaborated drafts or revised existing legislation (Kilcher et al., 2006). 

As a conclusion we could state that the whole co-existence legislation is still surrounded by many practical problems for the organic sector which still need to be solved (Anonymous 2005 and 2006b). 

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