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Offshore wind in deep waters opens up massive power potential

WindEurope
  • Floating turbine designs are cost-competitive with fixed-bottom designs in waters over 50 metres deep
  •  If challenges are successfully met, deep water wind farms could be operating in four years' time

Payment Services Directive - Innovation and security should go hand in hand

EBF - European Banking Federation

The European Banking Federation (EBF) notes with interest the long-awaited revision of the EU Payment Services Directive (PSD), disclosed today in a European Commission Proposal.

“The new proposal should bring some positive developments such as a more inclusive regulatory approach for the various types of payment services providers,” says Sébastien de Brouwer, EBF Executive Director, in charge of Retail, Legal, Economic and Social Policy.

Payments package: Commission proposal on interchange will allow retailers to pass savings on to consumers

EuroCommerce

The Commission has today published the long-awaited proposals on the ‘payments package’ of a revised Payment Services Directive (PSD), a Regulation on multilateral interchange fees (MIF) and a communication on SEPA governance. The package is broadly welcomed by merchants.

European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas publishes its Capacity Map 2013 and, in cooperation with GIE, also the System Development Map 2012

GIE - Gas Infrastructure Europe

(Brussels, 23 July 2013) The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG), in cooperation with Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), has published the third edition of the map dedicated to system development matters and covering the year 2012. At the same time, ENTSOG releases the 2013 edition of its capacity map and GIE publishes the revised 2013 edition of its storage and LNG maps.

Current levels of non-financial disclosure are not sufficient for assessing materiality

ACCA

The overwhelming majority of investors want European companies to be more consistent and transparent in their non-financial reporting, according to a survey by Eurosif and ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).

InnoApps Challenge: empowering young people to make a difference

HUAWEI

[Brussels, Belgium, 22 July 2013] A competition challenges youth developers to design innovative mobile applications to foster social inclusion. The contest, launched today, is a joint initiative of the global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider Huawei, the leading software maker Microsoft and the European Young Innovators Forum (EYIF).

Liberty Global

The ENVI vote on cap is a sensible approach to land use but the focus should remain on the intended greenhouse gas benefits.

Europia

Brussels, July 19th, 2013: EUROPIA, representing the European refining industry, believes that the European Parliament’s Environment Committee vote on a legislative proposal intended to limit the use of conventional biofuels in order to stimulate development of advanced biofuels and use of electricity in road transport fail to set a clear and consistent framework for the industry needed to achieve the real environmental targets of both the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) and Fuel Quality Directive (FQD).

First ICORE Official Meeting Successfully Concluded

European Project "Open Discovery Space"

Rome, July 2013 – ICORE founders and interested individuals met last March in Rome, Italy to discuss the establishment of the association, its publically available draft of statues, and future objectives within the topics of open research and open education. This discussion will be continued through a pair of online meetings open to all interested parties, taking place on July 30th, 2013 at 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM (UTC). Over forty participants from more than a dozen countries gathered in Rome to provide their professional experience, elaborating on the ICORE mission.

New Study by The Boston Consulting Group for ETNO Calls for Pro-Investment Agenda to Deliver Digital Single Market

ETNO - European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association

BRUSSELS, July 19, 2013–With significant reform of the current patchwork system of regulations governing telecommunications in the European Union there could be up to €750 billion in GDP growth and 5.5 million jobs by 2020, according to a new study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) for the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO).

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