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The European Commission has set out a series of common, non-binding principles for collective redress mechanisms in the Member States so that citizens and companies can enforce the rights granted to them under EU law where these have been infringed. The Recommendation aims to ensure a coherent horizontal approach to collective redress in the European Union without harmonizing Member States' systems.
The European Commission has set out a series of common, non-binding principles for collective redress mechanisms in the Member States so that citizens and companies can enforce the rights granted to them under EU law where these have been infringed. The Recommendation aims to ensure a coherent horizontal approach to collective redress in the European Union without harmonizing Member States' systems.
"The European Commission launched in 2012 an infringement procedure against Italy for failure to comply with Directive 2004/80/EC and is currently considering further steps of the procedure." It is the response of the EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding to a question by an Italian MEP on the issue of compensation for victims of violent crime. In practice, the Italian state is not always fulfills its duty to compensate the victims of violent intentional crime if the offender does not have the means to do so, as stated in the Directive 2004/80/EC.
Cittadinanzattiva is one of the associations of the organizing committee of the Campaign "Three Laws for Justice and Human Rights: Torture, Prisons, Drugs," three laws of civilization directed respectively to introduce the crime of torture in the Criminal Code, to amend the law on the Fini-Giovanardi drugs and restore the rule of law in overcrowded prisons.
The goal is to communicate the existence of the Law 38/2010, which guarantees and protects access to care for the sick, as well as inform them about local services. At the start a commercials on TV with the slogan "No longer alone in pain," an online map with 500 centers for palliative care and pain therapy in Italy, information and contact points available to the public.
During the presentation of the "XII National Day of relief", celebrated throughout Italy last May 26, the Italian Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin has issued an official statement related their commitment to promote a network among member countries to share best practices on palliative care during the Italian Presidency of the EU in 2014.
Some of the most commonly used painkillers can increase long-term users' heart-attack risk by more than a third, an in-depth study into their side-effects has shown. The study, published in The Lancet medical journal last May 30, it was realized by researchers of the University of Oxford's Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Unit in cooperation with the Institute of Pharmacology, Catholic University of Rome, and funded by Medical research council and by British heart foundation.
Health care violations are still widespread in many Eastern European and Central Asian countries. At the same time, many countries in this region have engaged in extensive legal reforms and passed laws to protect rights. But these laws are rarely enforced, and they remain largely unknown by lawyers, health care providers, and patients. To help these laws work for patients, Open Society has produced a series of practical how-to manuals - Practitioner Guides - for lawyers to address human rights violations in patient care.
The European Commission has requested Italy to respect the rights of doctors working in public health services to minimum daily and weekly rest periods, as required by Working Time Directive (Directive 2003/88/EC). Under Italian law, several key rights contained in the Working Time Directive, such as the 48-hour limit to average weekly working time and minimum daily rest periods of 11 consecutive hours, do not apply to "managers" operating within the National Health Service.
Member States will need to step up their efforts to improve childcare provisions if the EU is to reach its 75% employment rate target by 2020, said the European Commission. Figures for 2010 show that most EU countries have missed their own targets for childcare provision: only eight were able to meet the targets for both age categories (0-3 years; 3 years to mandatory school age): Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Slovenia and the United Kingdom.
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