List of European Union directives
The following is a thematic list of European Union directives:
For a date based list, see the Category:European Union directives by number
Accounting, auditing, and management control
- Seventh Directive: Consolidated accounts of companies with limited liability (Directive 83/349/EEC of 29/6/83)[1]
- Eighth Directive: Qualifications of persons responsible for carrying out the statutory audits of accounting documents (Official Journal L126 of 12.5.1984, on EUR-Lex)[2]
- Communication COM(2003)286 related to the Eighth Directive, of the Commission of 21 May 2003: Reinforcing the statutory audit in the European Union – Not published in the Official Journal. Objective: reinforcing public oversight of the auditprofession; imposing the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) for statutory audits in the European Union as of 2005; systems of disciplinary sanctions; establishing the transparency of audit firms; as regards corporate governance, reinforcing audit committees and internal control.[3]
Anti-discrimination measures
- Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin : also called the "Race Directive" (Directive 2000/43/EC on Anti-discrimination)
- Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation
- Council Directive 2004/113/EC of 13 December 2004 implementing the principle of equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services
- Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast)
Culture
- Television Without Frontiers Directive (Council Directive 97/36/EC)
Energy
- Energy efficiency requirements for ballasts for fluorescent lighting directive
- Energy efficiency requirements for household electric refrigerators, freezers and combinations thereof directive
- Directive on electricity production from renewable energy sources 2001/77/EC (superseded)
- Promotion of cogeneration based on a useful heat demand in the internal energy market (2004/8/EC CHP directive)
- Promotion of the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport
- Renewable energy directive 2009/28/EC
- Energy efficiency directive 2012/27/EU
Environment
Pollution and Waste
- The Directive 76/464/EEC of 4 May 1976 on pollution caused by certain dangerous substances discharged into the aquatic environment of the Community
- Urban Waste Water Directive (Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water collection and treatment)
- Packaging and packaging waste directive, 94/62/EC deals with the problems of packaging waste and the currently permitted heavy metal content in packaging
- Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control; replaced by Directive 2008/1/EC (see below)
- Landfill Directive, Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999
- RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC
- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive ("WEEE directive"), Directive 2002/96, revised in 2006, 2009 and 2012, currently Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment
- Battery directive (2006/66/EC in force from 6 September 2006), Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC
- Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (Directive 2008/1/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control)
- Waste framework directive (Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste)
Wildlife and nature conservation
- Birds Directive (Council Directive 79/409/EEC)
- Birds Directive (Council Directive 2009/147/EC on the conservation of wild birds)
- Habitats Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora)
- Marine Strategy Framework Directive (Council Directive 2008/56/EC)
Environment - Other
- Industrial Emissions Directive
- Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy)
- Floods directive
- Strategic environmental assessment (Directive 2001/42/EC)
- Large Combustion Plant Directive (Directive 2001/80/EC of 23 October 2001 on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from large combustion plants)
- Noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors (2000/14/EC − ″OND″)
- Implementation of a Scheme for Greenhouse Gas Emission Allowance Trading Directive, amending Council Directive 96/61/EC (Directive 2003/87/EC of 13 October 2003)
- Freedom of access to information Directive, Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC
- Environmental impact assessment (Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment)
- 2008/50/EG, air quality
Finance
- Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFM) for investment funds
- Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) for bank capital
- Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 2004 (MIFIR, MiFID-I, MiFID-II )
- Transparency Directive
- Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive 2009 (UCITS)
- Directive 2002/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 November 2002 concerning Life Assurance[4]
Intellectual property
- Patentability of computer-implemented inventions (proposed, then rejected)
- Directive on the legal protection of topographies of semiconductor products (87/54/EEC 16 December 1986)
- Trademark Directive (89/104/EEC 21 December 1988)
- Rental and lending rights (92/100/EEC)
- Directive on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission (93/83/EEC 27 September 1993)
- Harmonising the term of copyright protection (Copyright Term Directive) (93/98/EEC 29 October 1993)
- Database Directive (96/9/EC 11 March 1996)
- Patentability of biotechnological inventions (98/44/EC 6 July 1998)
- Legal protection of designs (98/71/EC)
- The Information Society Directive (2001/29/EC 22 May 2001) – also known as the "EU Copyright Directive" (EUCD).
- Directive on the re-use of public sector information (2003/98/EC 17 November 2003)
- Enforcement of intellectual property rights (Civil) (2004/48/EC 29 April 2004).
- Enforcement of intellectual property rights (Criminal) (withdrawn)
- Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (proposed)
Pharmaceuticals
Privacy and data protection and retention
- General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679), superseded the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC 24 October 1995)
- Directive (EU) 2016/680 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties... on EUR-Lex
- Directive on a Community framework for electronic signatures (1999/93/EC 13 December 1999) on EUR-Lex
- Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (2002/58/EC 12 July 2002) on EUR-Lex
- Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC 15 March 2006)
- Directive 2009/136/EC (25 November 2009) on EUR-Lex, was COD/2007/0248 in the Telecoms Package, amending Directive 2002/22/EC on universal service and users’ rights relating to electronic communications networks and services, Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 on cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws.
- Passenger Name Record (PNR) Directive (2016/681 of 27 April 2016) on EUR-Lex
Technology and safety
Medical devices
- Directive 93/42/EEC (Medical devices directive)
- Active Implantable Medical Devices Directive
- In vitro diagnostic medical devices directive
Electronic communication
- Radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity directive (1999/5/EC "R&TTE Directive")
- Radio Equipment Directive (2014/53/EU "RED Directive")
- Access and interconnection Directive 2002/19/EC
- "Authorisation" Directive 2002/20/EC
- "Framework" Directive 2002/21/EC
- Universal service and user's rights Directive 2002/22/EC
- Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications 2002/58/EC
Information technology
- Certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market directive - 2000/31/EC "Directive on electronic commerce", 8 June 2000
- Coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors directive - 2004/17/EC 31 March 2004
- Coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts directive - 2004/18/EC 31 March 2004
- Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community Directive - 2007/2/EC INSPIRE directive 14 March 2007
Weights and measures
- Metric Directive 80/181/EEC
- Measuring instruments directive
- Non-automatic weighing instruments directive
Food and drink
- Colours for use in foodstuffs (1994/36/EC 30 June 1994)
- Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC) of 3 November 1998
- Food supplements directive (2002/46/EC 10 June 2002)
Safety at work
- Equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres (94/9/EC "ATEX directive")
- Minimum requirements for improving the safety and health protection of workers potentially at risk from explosive atmospheres (99/92/EC "ATEX directive")
- Personal protective equipment directive ("PPE directive")
- Machinery directive
Noise
- Airborne noise emitted by household appliances directive
- Noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors directive
Other
- Appliances burning gaseous fuels directive
- Artificial optical radiation directive (2006/25/EC in force from 5 April 2006)
- Cableway installations designed to carry persons directive
- Construction Products Directive
- Dangerous Preparations Directive (1999/45/EC in force from 30 July 2002)
- Efficiency requirements for new hot-water boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels directive ("Boilers directive")
- Electromagnetic compatibility directive ("EMC directive")
- Explosives for civil uses directive
- General product safety directive
- Low voltage Directive
- Marine equipment directive
- Pressure Equipment Directive
- Product liability directive
- Recreational Craft Directive
- Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals ("REACH directive")
- Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS) ("RoHS directive")
- Restrictions on marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations directive ("Azocolourants directive")
- Safety of toys directive
- Simple pressure vessel directive
- Tobacco Advertising Directive (IP/02/1788)
Transport
Rail transport
- EU Directive 91/440 creation of open access railways ("de-monopolisation of railways"), with modifications forms part of the First Railway Package
- Second Railway Package (2004), a collection of directives concerning open access railway operations, specifically with respect to interoperability and safety
- EU Directive 2008/57/EC, an updated directive that covers the interoperability of both the Trans-European high-speed rail network and the Trans-European conventional rail network[5]
- Interoperability of trans-European conventional rail system directive
- Interoperability of trans-European high-speed rail system directive
Road transport
- Directive 80/1269/EEC – relating to the engine power of motor vehicles
Transport - Other
- Lifts Directive
- Transportable pressure equipment directive
Other
- Community postal services Directive
- Commission Directive 91/71/EEC
- Taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments
- Directive 2004/38/EC on the right to move and reside freely
- 96/71/EC Posted Workers Directive on the free movement of workers
See also
References
- ↑ Directive: consolidated accounts
- ↑ Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament – Reinforcing the statutory audit in the EU
- ↑ Link to the COM(2003)286
- ↑ "EUR-Lex - 32002L0083 - EN - EUR-Lex". eur-lex.europa.eu. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
- ↑ "DIRECTIVE 2008/57/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL". Retrieved 22 August 2012.
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