“Europe needs growth. And in my view ICT investment is the best way to achieve it and spread it relatively evenly. You get growth when you create the conditions for creating jobs. And you get smart growth when you target your actions and investments and increase your levels of productivity and innovation”
Neelie Kroes, VP & Digital Agenda Commissioner, European Commission, 18 May 2011

The European Parliament's Women's Rights Committee today gained equal footing with the Legal Affairs and Civil Liberties Committees for work on a Directive on protection for victims of crime; and the civil protection instrument of the European Protection Order.

The decision was taken today by Parliament's political group presidents. The two proposed pieces of legislation come under the "victims' package".

-ACCA and ecoDa roundtable attendees discuss the main issues for audit following EC legislative proposals-

Attendees at a recent ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and ecoDa (the European Confederation of Directors' Associations) roundtable in Brussels reached a broad consensus that the value and quality of audit should be enhanced, and that it is important to restore society’s confidence in the ability of audit to add value to corporate activity.

Following a certification audit in October 2011 Camfil Farr Malaysia received the ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems certification on December 5, 2011.

We expect that a systematic approach to energy will lead to savings and help us to become a greener company. Past certification projects, including ISO 9001 Quality management System, OSHAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System and ISO 14001 Environmental Management System, have lead to many

Speaking from the UN Climate Talks in Durban, GUE/NGL MEP Bairbre de Brún said:

"As the end of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol comes into view, there is an urgent need to seek a second commitment period for, without it, the world is rapidly moving towards an extremely worrying 'limbo' situation.