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Allegations by the US Environmental Protection Agency that Volkswagen distorted the results of emissions tests on diesel cars caused the company’s share price to fall significantly at the beginning of this week, and has raised questions about the veracity of emissions testing across the world. These allegations have also thrown the spot-light on one of
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The Trade Union Bill 2015-16 was introduced in the House of Commons on 15 July 2015.
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This note sets out the establishment of the Big Society Bank and its emergence and connections to the dormant bank accounts legislation. It is now called the Big Society Capital Group.
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Motor Insurers' Bureau: untraced and uninsured drivers. By Louise Butcher & Tim Edmonds. SN/BT/1997.
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This note brings together the main documents and developments regarding the EU's pan-Community supervisory and recovery mechanism for members’ banking sectors - the Banking Union. Significant new measures were approved of in December 2013 it faces a severe test in respect to Greece in 2015..
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This note outlines the development of EU legislation designed to improve the Single Market in equity investments through the MiFID, and now MiFID II, Directives.
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This book examines the key issues facing the House of Commons over the course of the 2015 Parliament - from the public finances to the UK’s membership of the EU and from school places for children to climate change.
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This note examines the passage of the Coalition Government’s legislation to establish a new system of regulation for the pubs sector. A second Library note discusses the historical background to this initiative (SN6740).
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This note looks at the slow progress towards a statutory system of regulation of the pub company - tenant relationship. A second Library note discusses recent developments in this area (SN7074).
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This Paper brings together, in an abbreviated way, the main features of reform and regulatory activity affecting (particularly) banking to have taken place under the Coalition Government. It describes legislation and provides links to reports and studies by the principal regulatory bodies.
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This note brings together narratives of two banking crises in Sweden and Norway in the early 1990s and describes the remedial action taken by central governments.
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This note gives an overview of the debate over standardised packaging. As such, it is not a comprehensive account of the different arguments used by those who support its use, and those who oppose it. Much more detail on these arguments is given in the Government’s summary report to its public consultation. Similarly, this note does not seek to evaluate the different views that have been expressed as to the impact that standardised packaging might have on public health, the incidence of smuggling, and the compliance costs to business.
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This is latest in a series of technical legislative measures with the broad remit of updating insurance statute law.
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