European Union Legislative Procedure - Acts

Acts

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Legal acts resulting from these procedures can come in a number of forms. A regulation is a law that has direct effect; for example the roaming charges regulation which immediately set price limits on mobile phone calls made in another EU state. A directive needs to be transposed, within certain limits, into national law; for example the copyright duration directive which was transposed in Greece as Law No. 2557/1997 and Ireland as European Communities (Term of Protection of Copyright) Regulations, 1995. A decision has direct effect, but only relating to a specific person or entity, and there are also various other non-binding instruments.

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