The European Parliament has adopted a Regulation establishing EU-wide rules governing the working hours of pilots and cabin personnel. Mathieu Grosch MEP, EPP Group Coordinator in the Transport and Tourism Committee of the European Parliament, welcomes the new flight time Regulation which will reduce crew fatigue thus improving overall safety conditions for flight personnel and their passengers.

October is definitely the bus and coach month. See for yourself: the 8th IRU European Bus & Coach Forum is just around the corner, and will take place at this year's Busworld Europe in Belgium, where you will also learn about Busworld's new Academy and its inaugural seminar. The new Public-Private Citizen's Mobility Forum will also take off this month, as a follow-up to the recommendations of the EU Public-Private Smart Move High Level Group, published last May.

- SMEs seeking shelter in niche markets

- Confidence upturn in global recovery

The economic recovery is causing a new kind of credit crunch for the world’s small and medium sized businesses as they struggle to find the finance needed to deliver on new business and orders, according to new findings from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) in their Global Economic Conditions Survey (GECS) analysis.

During a meeting today with the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, CEEP General Secretary, Valeria Ronzitti, presented some of CEEP’s key priorities ahead of the upcoming Tripartite Social Summit and the European Council meeting on 24-25 October 2013.

On 23rd September the European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET)1 published a Spanish Gas Appendix (AOC Appendix) to the EFET Gas Master Agreement.

The bilingual Spanish-English AOC (Almacenamiento Operativo Comercial) Appendix is the product of the joint efforts of lawyers and industry representatives to develop an industry standard for gas trading in the Spanish market. It reflects the specific AOC terminology in relation to defined terms, confirmations, scheduling, force majeure, remedies for failure to deliver or take, off-spec gas and taxes.