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Only one third of EU Member States have so far transposed Directive 2009/81/EC into their legislation, more than four months after the August 21st deadline has passed.....
The EC has, in effect, rebuffed the advice given by the EDA’s Senior Officer for Industry and Market to Member States searching for a way to continue to ask for offsets.
Dr. Athanasios Potsis, Epicos’s Senior Manager for Industrial Cooperation, questioned the EC’s right to oblige his country to bring in the directive as part of the financial support package given to Greece.
New terms agreed under the WTO’s Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) have given Israel more than sixteen years to phase out its civil offset program and domestic content requirements.
There is only one “at least theoretical possibility” to justify offsets, and that is under Article 346....
