List of European Union directives
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This list of European Union Directives is ordered by theme to follow EU law. For a date based list, see the Category:European Union directives by number.
From 1 January 1992 to 31 December 2014, numbers assigned by the General Secretariat of the Council followed adoption, for instance: Directive 2010/75/EU. Since 2015, acts have been numbered following the pattern (domain) YYYY/N, for instance "Regulation (EU) 2016/1627" with
domain being "EU" for the European Union, "Euratom" for the European Atomic Energy Community, "EU, Euratom" for the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, "CFSP" for the Common Foreign and Security Policy
year being the 4 digit year
the sequential number.
Some older directives had an ordinal number in their name, for instance: "First Council Directive 73/239/EEC".
Free movement and trade
Goods (2011)
Commission Directive 66/683/EEC of 7 November 1966 eliminating all differences between the treatment of national products and that of products which, under Articles 9 and 10 of the Treaty, must be admitted for free movement, as regards laws, regulations or administrative provisions prohibiting the use of the said products and prescribing the use of national products or making such use subject to profitability.
Social and market regulation
Business protection (4006)
Council Directive 84/850/EEC concerning misleading and comparative advertising (1984), "substantially amended several times", and replaced in 2006 by:
Directive 2006/114/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning misleading and comparative advertising. The aim of this directive is to protect traders against misleading advertising and its unfair consequences.
Consumer protection (6806)
Directive 85/374/EEC: Product liability directive: establishes the principle of producer liability without fault applicable to European producers, such that "where a defective product causes damage to a consumer, the producer may be liable even without negligence or fault on their part".
Directive 98/27/EC on injunctions for the protection of consumers' interests, repealed by
Directive 2009/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on injunctions for the protection of consumers' interests.
Directive on alternative consumer dispute resolution, Directive 2013/11/ΕU, issued on 21 May 2013.
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