ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) today publishes a collection of essays from experts in the public and private sectors assessing the role of ethical corporate behaviour in risk management and governance.

Antibiotics are drugs that are very valuable in treating or preventing all sorts of infections caused by bacteria. Nevertheless, the more antibiotics are used, the more bacteria develop resistance to them. This is natural, and it is happening all over the world, particularly where antibiotics are used, overused and misused. Antibiotics use has to be balanced: they should be used only when they are needed for therapeutic reasons.
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With the European Commission set to come forward with proposals on the Single Market Act (SMA) next week, the European Parliament today adopted three reports setting out its position (1). The Commission is set to outline a series of concrete initiatives to relaunch the single market. The Greens believe the focus of any reform must be to stimulate the shift towards a more sustainable economy and welcomed the focus on this in the reports adopted today. After the vote, Green MEP Emilie Turunen said:

Antibiotic resistance is an increasing public health threat all over the world. To reduce this problem the use of antibiotics has to be balanced, meaning that antibiotics should be used only when they are needed and justified for therapeutic reasons, and not otherwise.