List of European Union directives

Accounting, auditing, and management control

Seventh Directive: Consolidated accounts of companies with limited liability (Directive 83/349/EEC of 29/6/83)

Eighth Directive: Qualifications of persons responsible for carrying out the statutory audits of accounting documents (Official Journal L126 of 12.5.1984, on EUR-Lex)

Communication COM(2003)286 related to the Eighth Directive, of the Commission of 21 May 2003: Reinforcing the statutory audit in the European Union – Not published in the Official Journal. Objective: reinforcing public oversight of the auditprofession; imposing the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) for statutory audits in the European Union as of 2005; systems of disciplinary sanctions; establishing the transparency of audit firms; as regardscorporate governance, reinforcing audit committees and internal control.

Anti-discrimination measures

Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin : also called the "Race Directive" (Directive 2000/43/EC on Anti-discrimination)

Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation

Council Directive 2004/113/EC of 13 December 2004 implementing the principle of equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services

Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast)

Culture

Television Without Frontiers Directive (Council Directive 97/36/EC)

Energy

Energy efficiency requirements for ballasts for fluorescent lighting directive

Energy efficiency requirements for household electric refrigerators, freezers and combinations thereof directive

Directive on electricity production from renewable energy sources 2001/77/EC (superseded)

Promotion of cogeneration based on a useful heat demand in the internal energy market (2004/8/EC CHP directive)

Promotion of the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport

Renewable energy directive 2009/28/EC

Energy efficiency directive 2012/27/EU

Environment

The Directive 76/464/EEC of 4 May 1976 on pollution caused by certain dangerous substances discharged into the aquatic environment of the Community

Birds Directive (Council Directive 2009/147/EC on the conservation of wild birds)

Environmental impact assessment (Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment)

Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control; replaced by Directive 2008/1/EC (see below)

Freedom of access to information Directive

Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (Directive 2008/1/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control)

Industrial Emissions Directive

Habitats Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora)

Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy)

Urban Waste Water Directive (Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water collection and treatment)

Waste framework directive (Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste)

Floods directive

Landfill Directive

Strategic environmental assessment (Directive 2001/42/EC)

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive ("WEEE directive")

Large Combustion Plant Directive (Directive 2001/80/EC of 23 October 2001 on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from large combustion plants)

Noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors (2000/14/EC − ″OND″)

Wildlife and nature conservation

Birds Directive (Council Directive 79/409/EEC)

Habitats Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC)

Marine Strategy Framework Directive (Council Directive 2008/56/EC)

Finance

Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFM) for investment funds

Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) for bank capital

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 2004 (MIFIR, MiFID-I, MiFID-II )

Transparency Directive

Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive 2009 (UCITS)

Intellectual property

The Information Society Directive (2001/29/EC 22 May 2001) – also known as the "EU Copyright Directive" (EUCD).

Enforcement of intellectual property rights (Criminal) (proposed)

Enforcement of intellectual property rights (Civil) (2004/48/EC 29 April 2004).

Harmonising the term of copyright protection (Copyright Term Directive) (93/98/EEC 29 October 1993)

Legal protection of designs (98/71/EC)

Database Directive (96/9/EC 11 March 1996)

Patentability of biotechnological inventions (98/44/EC 6 July 1998)

Patentability of computer-implemented inventions (proposed, then rejected)

Rental and lending rights (92/100/EEC)

Directive on the legal protection of topographies of semiconductor products (87/54/EEC 16 December 1986)

Trademark Directive (89/104/EEC 21 December 1988)

Directive on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission (93/83/EEC 27 September 1993)

Directive on the re-use of public sector information (2003/98/EC 17 November 2003)

Pharmaceuticals

Directive 65/65/EEC1

Directive 75/318/EEC

Directive 75/319/EEC

Directive 93/41/EEC

Directive 2001/20/EC

Directive 2001/83/EC

Directive 2005/28/EC

Privacy and data protection and retention

Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC 24 October 1995), to be superseded by the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679)

Directive on a Community framework for electronic signatures (1999/93/EC 13 December 1999) on EUR-Lex

Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (2002/58/EC 12 July 2002) on EUR-Lex

Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC 15 March 2006)

Directive 2009/136/EC (25 November 2009) on EUR-Lex, was COD/2007/0248 in the Telecoms Package, amending Directive 2002/22/EC on universal service and users’ rights relating to electronic communications networks and services, Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 on cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws.

Passenger Name Record (PNR) Directive (2016/681 of 27 April 2016) on EUR-Lex

Medical devices

Directive 93/42/EEC (Medical devices directive)

Active Implantable Medical Devices Directive

In vitro diagnostic medical devices directive

Electronic communication

Access and interconnection Directive 2002/19/EC

"Authorisation" Directive 2002/20/EC

"Framework" Directive 2002/21/EC

Universal service and user's rights Directive 2002/22/EC

Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications 2002/58/EC

Information technology

Certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market directive - 2000/31/EC "Directive on electronic commerce", 8 June 2000

Coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors directive - 2004/17/EC 31 March 2004

Coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts directive - 2004/18/EC 31 March 2004

Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community Directive - 2007/2/EC INSPIRE directive 14 March 2007

Weights and measures

Metric Directive 80/181/EEC

Other

Airborne noise emitted by household appliances directive

Appliances burning gaseous fuels directive

Artificial optical radiation directive (2006/25/EC in force from 5 April 2006)

Battery directive (2006/66/EC in force from 6 September 2006)

Cableway installations designed to carry persons directive

Colours for use in foodstuffs (1994/36/EC 30 June 1994)

Construction Products Directive

Dangerous Preparations Directive (1999/45/EC in force from 30 July 2002)

Efficiency requirements for new hot-water boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels directive ("Boilers directive")

Electromagnetic compatibility directive ("EMC directive")

Equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres (94/9/EC "ATEX directive")

Explosives for civil uses directive

Food supplements directive (2002/46/EC 10 June 2002)

General product safety directive

Interoperability of trans-European conventional rail system directive

Interoperability of trans-European high-speed rail system directive

Landfill Directive

Lifts Directive

Low voltage Directive

Machinery directive

Marine equipment directive

Measuring instruments directive

Minimum requirements for improving the safety and health protection of workers potentially at risk from explosive atmospheres (99/92/EC "ATEX directive")

Noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors directive

Non-automatic weighing instruments directive

Packaging and packaging waste directive

Personal protective equipment directive ("PPE directive")

Pressure Equipment Directive

Product liability directive

Radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity directive (1999/5/EC "R&TTE Directive")

Recreational Craft Directive

Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals ("REACH directive")

Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS) ("RoHS directive")

Restrictions on marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations directive ("Azocolourants directive")

Safety of toys directive

Simple pressure vessel directive

Tobacco Advertising Directive (IP/02/1788)

Transportable pressure equipment directive

Rail transport

EU Directive 91/440 creation of open access railways ("de-monopolisation of railways"), with modifications forms part of the First Railway Package

Second Railway Package (2004), a collection of directives concerning open access railway operations, specifically with respect to interoperability and safety

EU Directive 2008/57/EC, an updated directive that covers the interoperability of both the Trans-European high-speed rail network and the Trans-European conventional rail network

Road transport

Directive 80/1269/EEC – relating to the engine power of motor vehicles

Other

Community postal services Directive

Commission Directive 91/71/EEC

Taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments

Directive 2004/38/EC on the right to move and reside freely

96/71/EC Posted Workers Directive on the free movement of workers

1998

Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC) of 3 November 1998

Legal protection of designs (98/71/EC)

Patentability of biotechnological inventions (98/44/EC 6 July 1998)