WikiLeaks and DataCell had been planning to file a complaint Thursday with the European Union Commission against Visa, MasterCard, and the Danish payment processor Teller.
However, the deal has been awaiting approval by regulatory authorities around the world and, earlier this week, received approval from the European Union Competition Commission.
"We're studying the compatibility of these decisions with the international laws of competition, together with our concerned partners, especially the European Union and the European Commission, " a spokesman said.
From April 1st 2012 the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) will allow petitioners in the European Union to propose legislation to the European Commission.
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The rest of the European Union has accepted new guidelines from the European Commission, but these are what the profession calls sensible.
Nor is there any independent agency, akin to the European Union's commission, to adjudicate disputes between members.
In March it agreed to a ruling by Japan's fair trade commission to settle a dispute over anticompetitive sales practices. (Intel denies any unlawful conduct.) The European Union and the Korean Fair Trade Commission are now investigating Intel on similar charges.
"The rule of law, the democratic checks and balances and the independence of the judiciary are cornerstones of the European democracy and indispensable for mutual trust within the European Union, " the Commission warned.
Both the French government, which currently holds the rotating European Union presidency, and the European Commission's transport directorate are pressing for strict laws to exclude old ships from European ports.
For if the so-called stability and growth pact is indeed held to be the bible of the European Union, Mr Prodi as head of the commission, whose duty it is to enforce European law, is meant to be worshipper-in-chief.
In a statement, Catherine Ashton, the high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy and vice president of the European Commission, said she was "saddened by the tragic news" of the incident.
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"The investigation will determine whether the product under investigation originating in the country concerned is being dumped and whether the dumped imports have caused injury to the Union industry, " the European Commission said in a statement.
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The European Commission, the union's executive branch, pushed for a central role in raising and lending funds and found an ally in France.
Drawing support from the European Commission, the Union for the Mediterranean, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the effort is intended to help fund pilot projects across the region that work towards the Mediterranean Solar Plan adopted in 2008.
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The European Commission should only propose union-wide legislation that was "necessary and proportionate", Mr Blunt said.
National governments must follow macroeconomic directives set by the European Commission, the European Union's executive arm.
The European Commission, the European Union's executive arm, has proposed that uninsured depositors in failing banks should potentially face losses but not before 2018.
Amidst a series of downgrades to the euro zone economic forecasts by the European Commission, the governing body of the European Union on Wednesday actually raised its forecast for Poland's economic growth in 2008, to 5.4%, from 5.3%.
In its latest progress report on Poland's fitness to join the European Union, which it hopes to do next year, the European Commission scolded Warsaw for not doing enough to tackle graft, especially in the police and border-guard services.
The UK has welcomed plans set out by the European Commission to move towards a common "banking union" across the eurozone - which could allow central authorities to intervene before a bank gets into trouble to prevent taxpayers having to bail it out later on.
Recently he suggested that Jacques Delors, the former (French) head of the European Commission, should find a way to reform the Union's institutions.
The Commission agreed and the European Union's Council of Finance Ministers adopted the proposal in January 2013.
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Some of the problems with the commission's financial controls, however, are unique to the European Union.
Yet it is the European Commission which decides if the European Union adopts the standard-setter's new rules.
The grant to buy the woodland came from Cydcoed - a Forestry Commission Wales community woodland project, which is funded by the European Union and Welsh Assembly Government.
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The thing about a formal banking union for the eurozone, of the sort recommended by Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, is that it is a covert or backdoor form of fiscal union (see today's FT for more on this).
The European Union's supposed single market, which the commission polices, is fractured over the issue.
Last month the Commission wrote to 24 of the European Union's 27 member states, spelling out how each is infringing European railway directives and threatening proceedings.
European Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd said the European Union executive would soon adopt a decision to allow the transfer of data to the United States under the agreed framework.
The UK must amend its legislation on the tax treatment of controlled foreign companies, as it fails to fulfil European Union (EU) Treaty obligations or adequately take into account relevant court rulings, the European Commission has said.
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