Translation of "Schwer durchsetzbar" in English

Sites for special waste depositories are generally difficult to get approved.

That would be difficult to achieve, and the Chinese would be sure to veto it in the UN Security Council.

People have voted for a senate that will make it difficult to enforce changes.

Such provisions are not yet widespread in Germany and, depending on their design, are difficult to enforce.

Since it may well prove politically too difficult to implement a Community method for both evaluations and suspension, however worthwhile, would it not be better to make European substance the priority by launching infringement proceedings when necessary against Member States in breach of Schengen rules?

These measures are welcome given the numerous problems which have arisen over time with systems for registering working time, primarily to do with digital tachographs, as well as due to the fact that existing legislative provisions have been regarded as inflexible and difficult to enforce.

Providing for such detailed and specific amendments within the text of the regulation itself could, however, have the affect of making the regulation cumbersome and too difficult to implement.

Although I agree with this report in general terms, I think it would be premature to introduce a single European tax on CO2, because it would be difficult to implement alongside the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.

Even though the unanimity principle continues to apply, making certain policies difficult to pursue, perhaps a way could be found by means of structural support.

Limited closed areas and seasons may offer some protection but they have proved difficult to implement.

The inclusion of natural light renders, sadly, the sensible proposals within this package unworkable, legally difficult to enforce and practically difficult to manage.

Given the distances covered by such services, the provisions of the current Regulation were also difficult to enforce accurately using this alternative regime, leaving the system open to abuse.

Since the internationally agreed procedures and principles on the safe loading and unloading of dry bulk carriers are non-mandatory, they are difficult to enforce in relation to the protection of the structural safety of the ships calling at loading or unloading terminals in the Member States.

The use of the solvent management plan, which is the key tool for assessing installation level compliance, is regarded by some competent authorities as too complicated for this sector and very hard to enforce, given the small size of most of the companies involved and the large number of installations.

It would appear that this requirement would also be very difficult to enforce if, as seems likely, suppliers with no physical presence in the EU declined to comply with it.

Price increases should also be difficult under effective competition, unless these increases are agreed or concerted between the car manufacturers.

Some Member States already have a national ceiling, but this is now clearly difficult to apply when internal border controls have been abolished.

While all workers satisfying the objective definition of an employment relationship should thus fall within the scope of the Directive, there is a need to consider particular groups such as volunteer firefighters, to whom it is difficult to apply or enforce general rules.

For portable batteries a ban would be difficult to enforce because of their smaller size and wider range of users (both professionals and consumers).

Several adopted measures are difficult to enforce and have limited impact, while a number of planned measures are repeatedly rolled over to the next action plan.

Reforms to make pension systems sustainable may well be politically difficult.

If a Member State administration were to fail to implement an ERC Decision (even though it had agreed to be bound by it), enforcement would be dependent upon general principles of international law which, if effective at all, would be long-winded and difficult to achieve.

Such transparency conditions are more appropriate and less restrictive than bans, which in addition are difficult to enforce.

As illustrated in the previous section, conflicts of interest and favouritism appear to be among the most recurrent problems in the allocation and spending of public money (including EU funds) both at central and at local levels while current prevention and control mechanisms are difficult to enforce or not sufficiently dissuasive.

However, the Council considers that, taking into consideration recent experience, fast and continuous reductions in primary current expenditure are difficult to achieve.