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EC, theEC, the /ˌiː ˈsiː◂/   - If directives are not being enforced at a local level, the EC market will remain unfair.
- More than 10,000 EC students came to study in Britain in 1987, the last year for which figures are available.
- Most EC goods enter almost duty-free.
- The EC plans a rescue attempt, with subsidies and incentives to plant more cork oaks.
- The distillers believe the EC tax policy is strangling their business.
- They are also eligible under EC rules for any public subsidies available to companies incorporated under the law of the host state.
- To get ministerial approval it will need to contain something for everybody, in the best tradition of EC compromises.
NOUN► country· Yet the Government has committed Britain merely to stabilise emissions by 2005 - well behind the majority of EC countries.· Makers have been persuaded to publish lists of prices in 10 EC countries.· Exports to EC countries increased 12.9 percent in January compared with January 1990.· Britain also makes more direct private investment in the developing world than any other EC country - some £2,400 million in 1989.· No major EC country has ever been refused what it wanted when it declared that a vital national interest was at stake. ► directive· The working party has authority to form a draft EC directive.· Furthermore, building enough to replace sufficient coal-fired stations to meet the draft EC Directive meant an impossible construction programme. ► limit· On 20 November 1989, the same treatment works at Camelford again polluted water with twice the EC limit for aluminium. (the European Community) the former name for the EU |