... which is that it is binding on all the Member States and not specifically towards a named person or persons, so it is an abstract normative measure. As regulations own the directive application nature, they can automatically proceed into national laws for the all Member States when they come into force, without the need to separate national legal measures, therefore the Member States do not need to find legislative instruments to make the regulation enforceable upon their nations. Moreover, Member States, they do not have legal rights to amend and annul the regulations made by the European Community if their national laws are against them, thus they have to enforce them entirely and precisely. Regulations have to be published in the Official Journal and entry into force on the date specified in the particular regulation or if there is no such date thereof, it should be on the twentieth date ...

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