Brussels, 29 September 2009

The FIA Eurocouncil expects a new ambitious programme to come out of the consultation process on the European Road Safety Action Programme

In its answer to the consultation the FIA Eurocouncil will underline the need to have high level commitment, strong leadership, clear objectives and precise targets.

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(Brussels, 29 September 2009): Cable Europe and Cable Europe Labs released a new report by Solon Management Consulting on the state of play of the European cable market, “Cable in Europe: Delivering the Future Today”, which shows sustainable growth, outperformance of the general European economy and continued investments in high speed fibre networks for European consumers against the backdrop of heightened EU political will to push broadband penetration to 100% by 2010.

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ANEC, the European Consumer Voice in Standardisation, asks the European Commission to set maximum sound levels in Personal Music Players (PMPs) that can be limited by default. However, we believe that, in addition to limits related to time-exposure, a sound limit of 89 dB(A) should be the maximum permitted by default in PMPs, with secured access to a second maximum of 100 dB(A). And warnings such as “do not listen at a high volume” or “do not listen for a long period of time” should not be used instead of safe sound limits, as they do not always deter consumers.