Archive for the ‘Law’ Category
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
European Parliament and the Council has adopted Directive that requires user consent to internet cookies. Directive will be in force across the European Union within 18 months.
See: Directive amending Directive 2002/22/EC, 2002/58/EC and 2006/2004 (PDF).
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Today Saeima (Parliament of Latvia) adopted amendments in Law on traffic forbidding residents of Latvia to drive vehicles registered in other countries. Authors of these provisions stated they are needed because lot of residents of Latvia drive cars registred in neighbouring Lithuania, thus avoiding paying road tax in Latvia and ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
The Personal Democracy Forum presented book "Rebooting America". It is an anthology of forty-four essays on ideas of of reenergizing, reorganizing, and reorienting our government for the Internet Age. Download the entire anthology, or buy the book!
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Few days ago one of largest torrent trackers in Latvia file.lv was closed by police. Police seized about 40 servers and arrested two persons - server administrators and owners. They are accused in breach of copyright and illegal distribution of copyrighted material. If found guilty they can face ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
On Saturday, August 2, Latvia hold a referendum on amendments to the Constitution to give people the right to dissolve Parliament. To pass, the referendum needed 757,607 “yes” votes or half the voting population. Though referendum failed to win enough support. Only 560,000 Latvians or about 43% of Latvia's 1.5 ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Parliament of Latvia is going to prolong ombudsman's term of service from 4 years to 5. Changes in term would take effect with year 2010 when next ombudsman takes his post.
Changes in legislation also provides that procedure of ombudsman's dismissal may be initiated by at least one third of Members ...
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