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ACCA and IMA announce new global strategic initiative promoting Financial Leadership and Performance

ACCA

ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants) announce a new strategic initiative for the global finance profession, Financial Leadership and Performance.

‘Untapped potential of all four Battery technologies highlighted during the EUROBAT Forum’

EUROBAT

Gathering in Rome early June, representatives of Italy’s major transmission and distribution system operators confirmed that all four battery technologies will be required to provide energy storage in the country with each being suitable for different purposes and grid configurations. The key issue for all actors is to create appropriate market and regulatory conditions for facilitating the usage of energy storage technologies including batteries.

GSE elects Nicole Otterberg GSE President GSE will further boost its transparency initiative

GIE - Gas Infrastructure Europe

The GSE members have elected Nicole Otterberg, Managing Director of E.ON Gas Storage, GSE President. Upon her election, Nicole Otterberg said: “It is a great honour for me to assume the office of GSE President. I would like to thank the GSE members for the trust placed in me. The storage industry is facing enormous challenges. GSE is working in many ways on solutions to support constructive discussions at national and European level. One of the core topics at present is security of supply. It is this topic that I want to drive forward during my term as President.

Information Technology Agreement expansion negotiations approach the finish line. International negotiators in Geneva one step away from concluding a new Information Technology Agreement

DIGITAL EUROPE

BRUSSELS, Monday 24 June 2013. The expansion of the Information Technology Agreement has entered its final stage, as the negotiators gather in Geneva today for the penultimate round of talks. The list of products considered for expansion was consolidated last week and expectations are high that this agreement will be concluded soon.

AEGEE-Europe denounces the attack to Youth Rights as the the Spanish Youth Council will be suppressed today

AEGEE Europe

AEGEE-Europe, a European student organization present in 19 Spanish cities, claims that the closure of the Spanish Youth Council aggravates the vulnerability of young people in Spain and is a violation of the Constitutional right of youth to be allowed to participate in the political, social, economic and cultural decisions. The Spanish Cabinet of Ministers will approve this closure today in a pack of austerity measures in public administration, without consulting the views of young people.

European electricity & gas sector welcomes adoption of anti-VAT-fraud package by ECOFIN Council

EFET - European Federation of Energy Traders

As a group of ten European electricity & gas associations, comprising regulators, exchanges, brokers, clearing houses, transmission system operators, energy trading firms, utilities and guarantee of origin issuing bodies, we highly welcome today’s adoption of the anti-VAT-fraud package by the ECOFIN Council at its last meeting under the current Irish Council Presidency. This constitutes a major step towards the eradication of VAT fraud in the electricity and gas markets in Europe.

Posting of workers: MEPs to start negotiations with Member States. Danuta Jazłowiecka MEP and Csaba Őry MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

Yesterday, after long and difficult negotiations between political groups in the European Parliament, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs voted on the Enforcement Directive concerning the posting of workers. MEPs backed provisions that will help labour inspectorates in assessing the legality of posting without changing the definition of a posted worker.

“The North Seas as the future energy pool of Europe”

EUFORES - European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources

Members of Parliament
from all over Europe meet in Dublin.

Request strong political support
for offshore wind in the North Seas.

Dublin, 21 June 2013 - Members of Parliament from all over Europe meet on 21 and 22 June 2013 in Dublin Castle for the 13th Inter-Parliamentary Meeting on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency to demand leadership and more European cooperation on offshore wind and launch a Parliamentary Platform as a political support to the governmental North Seas Countries Offshore Grid Initiative (NSCOGI).

Securing the rights of workers in transnational companies

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

GUE/NGL MEP Thomas Händel's own initiative report on cross-border collective bargaining and transnational social dialogue was adopted by the European Parliament's Employment committee today.

Posted workers vote: Employment committee endorses modern form of slavery

GUE/NGL Group in the EP
A majority of MEPs in the European Parliament's Employment Committee have shown their distain for workers' rights by giving the green light to a flawed report on posted workers.

With 30 MEPs voting in favour and 17 against, the Committee has granted a mandate for negotiations to begin.

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