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JOINT CALL FROM EUROPEAN COMMERCIAL BROADCASTERS & PUBLISHERS FOR FAIR PLAY IN THE MEDIA MARKET

ACT

Brussels, 3 December 2008 – Commercial broadcasters and publishers from across Europe have joined forces in advance of tomorrow’s crucial meeting on the future of broadcasting between the European Commission and Member States to warn against any further dilution of European rules for state aid to public broadcasters. The European Commission presented its Communication on the 2001 Broadcasting Communication on 4 November 2008 and opened a public consultation asking for industry input until 15 January 2009.

Commissioner Verheugen presents the Raw Materials Initiative at the European Minerals Forum 2008

IMA EUROPE

Commissioner Verheugen presents the Raw Materials Initiative at the European Minerals Forum 2008

The minerals sector welcomes the initiative and outlines plans for the European Minerals Day 2009

Brussels, 26 November 2008 – Today at the European Minerals Forum, Vice-President Verheugen, Commissioner for

Enterprise and Industry presented the Executive's integrated strategy that aims to secure and improve access to

raw materials for EU industry. IMA-Europe, the European Industrial Minerals Association, UEPG, the European

position of the Energy Intensive Industries Alliance and the Alliance for a Competitive European Industry

Energy Intensive Industries Alliance

The European Industry Associations listed below, as individual members
of the Alliance for a Competitive European Industry and the Alliance of
Energy Intensive Industries, support the overall EU Climate Change
objective and call for a workable EU ETS that maintains the
competitiveness of their sectors.

They urge the EU Institutions to include
the following provisions:
The EU ETS Directive recognises the need to identify through criteria the energy
intensive sectors exposed to international competition, as well as potential

eBusiness Interoperability conference - Utrecht 8 and 9

CEN and CENELEC

December

There are still spaces available for the conference presented by the
eBusiness Interoperability Forum (eBIF). The theme is 'e-Business
interoperability practice: examples, impacts and standardization
challenges'.

CEN, in collaboration with Equens, NEN, and ECP.NL, invites you to the 4th eBIF
Conference. This conference will address interoperability practice, showing
examples, impacts, interoperability challenges, and present some ideas on the
future landscape of eBusiness.

Une initiative européenne pour les actes authentiques :un projet au service des citoyens et des entreprises

CNUE - Council of the Notariats of the European Union

Le Parlement européen a organisé ce mardi 2 décembre un forum sur la coopération judiciaire en matière civile, en
collaboration avec la présidence française du Conseil de l’Union européenne. A cette occasion, le Conseil des
Notariats de l’Union Européenne (CNUE), en la personne de son président Me Juan Bolás Alfonso, a présenté les

Europe’s farmland birds continue to suffer from agricultural policy

BirdLife International

MEDIA RELEASE

Europe’s farmland birds continue to suffer from agricultural policy

- EU unlikely to meet its 2010 biodiversity target- Brussels and Prague, 2 December 2008 – According to the latest data from the EuropeanBird Census Council (EBCC) and BirdLife International, many of Europe’s formerly “common” farmland birds continue to suffer from the effects of agricultural intensification.

CLEPA Press Release in support of the Commission’s European Recovery Action Plan

CLEPA

Brussels, 28/11/2008

CLEPA Press Release in support of the Commission’s European Recovery Action Plan

CLEPA welcomes the European Recovery Action Plan presented by Commission President
Barroso on 26 November. This timely and concise strategy comes at a moment of
unparalleled economic difficulties and offers European industries and businesses support in
difficult times.

COMMERCIAL TV WELCOMES POLITICAL AGREEMENT ON THE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS FRAMEWORK

ACT

COMMERCIAL TV WELCOMES POLITICAL AGREEMENT ON THE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS FRAMEWORK

Brussels, 28 November 2008 – The Association of Commercial Television in Europe

(ACT) representing the interests of the commercial broadcasting sector in Europe
welcomes the political agreement reached by the Telecommunications Council
yesterday on the widely discussed Electronic Communications Package. The Package
was presented by the European Commission in 2007 to update the telecommunications

Final agreement does not address the NGN challenge

ETNO - European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association

PRESS RELEASE

EU Telecoms Council – Brussels, 27 November

Final agreement does not address the NGN challenge  

BRUSSELS – ETNO, who represents the main investors in tomorrow’s networks and services, is very disappointed that
the final agreement does not address the investment challenge. ETNO notes however that a great number of EU Member
States at the EU Telecoms Council today insisted on the need to encourage risky investment in NGN access networks.

Legal action against Bulgaria over nature protection laws

BirdLife International

Legal action against Bulgaria over nature protection laws

European Commission opens legal procedure for insufficient protection of Black Sea coast
Brussels, 27 November 2008 – The European Commission took a strong stance today by
officially opening a legal infringement procedure [1] against Bulgaria for failing to
implement the EU Birds Directive [2]. The Bulgarian government has recently agreed to a
very large number of developments that are likely to do significant harm to the unique

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