Talk:List of European Union directives

Naming policy needed before it is too late

We seem to have two house styles, though almost all current articles use the first. I propose that we agree a single house syle:

1. Directive on <blah blah blah>
2. <Blah blah blah> directive

[I am in favour of option 1] Red King 20:32, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

I've removed the A/B voting (since these obviously aren't the only two options). It's probably better to discuss it (and hopefully not need a vote at all).

Perhaps it might be a good idea to include the phrase EU or European Union? For example, "European Union Directive on X"? Talrias (t | e | c) 22:11, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I was taking as given that the article currently uses just those two forms. Either seems good to me, though I prefer the first. I think the prefixes you suggest are excessively lengthy and don't add anything. I know of know other context in which the word "Directive" is used. Do you? --Red King 21:39, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Well, we did just agree to put "(European Commission)" at the end of every DG article (see Talk:Directorate-General#Naming Conventions). A similar argument could be made here. Talrias (t | e | c) 16:13, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't think that this is a valid comparison. "Director General" is widely used. --Red King 20:56, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Okay, so no one has done anything on this for over a year and no one decided. I think it would still be good to have a naming convention here, and as there is little difference between the two types I would go for the second, as it would be easier with categories, not having to put |name at the end of the category link. As for having a ref. to the EU in the title, well in the off chance there is something of the same name coming along perhaps we could just add (European Union, 2003) or whatever at the end so the date is there too, but obviously a redirect from a page without that end bit. Any objections? -JLogan 11:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Might be List_of_European_Union_directives#Numbering answer those questions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.136.216.31 (talk) 13:14, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Title

Does the title of this article make sense ? In my view, it does not, since we are here giving a very narrow overview of the EC legislation... Some are significant, some not (like the list on health and safety issues). Do we really intend to be exhaustive, when we finally give the link to the official search engine ? Philippe R. 23:50, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Thus, it might be merged with European Union law? Unless some specific page are written on a group of directives to address a specific thematic topic such as

• Freedom of movement for workers in the European Union — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.136.216.31 (talk) 13:25, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Content / Framework =

The official EU search engine is good - but runs the risk of descending into jargon. The Wikipedia article can contribute most by giving users a clear overview of EU legislation that then points towards the detail. The official search engine covers 20 areas (below). The Wikipedia article only 8. It would be good to use the EU framework but offer the reader an intelligent route through. --Ian Yorston 14:34, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

• 01. General, financial and institutional matters
• 02. Customs Union and free movement of goods
• 03. Agriculture
• 04. Fisheries
• 05. Freedom of movement for workers and social policy
• 06. Right of establishment and freedom to provide services
• 07. Transport policy
• 08. Competition policy
• 09. Taxation
• 10. Economic and monetary policy and free movement of capital
• 11. External relations
• 12. Energy
• 13. Industrial policy and internal market
• 14. Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments
• 15. Environment, consumers and health protection
• 16. Science, information, education and culture
• 17. Law relating to undertakings
• 18. Common Foreign and Security Policy
• 19. Area of freedom, security and justice
• 20. People's Europe

VDUs

Do you have anything for the EU's directives on using VDUs? I was looking specifically for this, but you haven't got it. Was I wrong about that existing?

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Monkey Chief 14:59, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

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DIRECTIVES or REGULATIONS?

The two pages for these items seem to be clear in differentiating a Directive from a Regulation. However, both pages link to a list of European Directives - which tends to break down the differentiation. There appears to be no link to a list of European Regulations. Is there one that I have missed somewhere?

The HSE web site lists REACh as a Regulation, not a Directive, so this item appears to be incorrectly listed.

I actually think that a single list of all items that identifies which items are Directives and which are Regulations would be more useful than two separate lists.

StandardsWallah 05 Aug 2009 Standardswallah (talk • contribs) 13:45, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, REACH does not belong in a list of directives. I would just remove it. I'm not really sure of the reason for this list. If we wanted a list of all regulations and directives it would be rather long (several thousand?). The actual articles could be found via the categories. I suppose the main point is to classify the directives by subject area (which could also be done using categories). --Boson (talk) 19:10, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Listing by Year

If these were listed by year I would know where 98/83/EC slotted in Tom Pippens (talk • contribs) 10:49, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Old directive have their year in two digits. This means that 98 means 1998. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.136.216.31 (talk) 13:27, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Is this one here?

Directive 1999/44/EC http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31999L0044:EN:HTML because I couldn't tell if it is. MIVP - Allow us to be of assistance to you. (Maybe a bit of tea for thought?) 14:09, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Order of themes

In what sense is this list "ordered by theme to follow EU law"? It is difficult to see what logic applies to the themes/sub-headings and the order in which they are listed. There is a lot of material in the section headed "Other" which could probably be organised more logically but if there is some framework for "ordering by theme to follow EU law", as stated in the lead, it would be good to know what that framework is. BobKilcoyne (talk) 05:58, 22 March 2023 (UTC)