On 1 April 2013 the European Citizens Initiative (ECI) will have been in use for one year. For civil society organisations the date is not a reason to celebrate.

By slim majority MEPs in the Parliament's Transport Committee today adopted the Commission's 'better airport package' proposal that seeks to increase the number of ground handling companies at airports.

GUE/NGL MEP Sabine Wills commented: "Several competing firms providing services will do nothing to enhance safety conditions. On the contrary wages and conditions only worsen."

"As a result of a constructive dialogue between the Centre-Right and the Greens and some Socialists, the EP's Legal Affairs Committee has adopted the Opinion regarding personal data protection with a comfortable majority. Today's vote leaves no room for ambiguity: we are in favour of high protection levels for citizens' privacy", said Rapporteur Marielle Gallo.

ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) has said that proposals to revise International Standard on Auditing (ISA) 720 could make audit more beneficial and had the potential to better meet investor demands.

ACCA welcomed the proposals in its response to proposed ISA 720 (Revised), The Auditor’s Responsibilities Relating to Other Information in Documents Containing or Accompanying Audited Financial Statements and the Auditor’s Report Thereon. 

Eighty-one per cent of accountants surveyed in ACCA’s (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) paper agreed about where responsibility for the environment lies

The private sector has a responsibility to protect the natural environment is a key finding of a new paper called Natural Capital – what do accountants think? which has been published by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).