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Fluorinated greenhouse gases: EP Environment committee deadlines are unrealistic

EuroCommerce

Today, the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee of the European Parliament adopted the report on fluorinated greenhouse gases by Green MEP, Bas Eickhout, and voted for unrealistic deadlines as regards the entry into force of a service ban for refrigeration equipment. It also calls for an allocation fee system, which is overly bureaucratic. All these measures will result in increased costs for the commerce sector.

Tackling youth unemployment: education, mobility and SMEs are crucial. Joseph Daul MEP, Corien Wortmann-Kool MEP and Csaba Őry MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

Following the European Commission’s Communication on youth unemployment, Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group, Corien Wortmann-Kool MEP, Vice-Chairwoman of the EPP Group, and Csaba Őry MEP, EPP Group Coordinator in the Employment and Social Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, made the following statement:

Third countries and IT/social media companies must comply with European data protection laws

THE GREENS/EUROPEAN FREE ALLIANCE

Commenting on the exchange of views today in the European Parliament's civil liberties committee with Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, Jan Philipp Albrecht, European Parliament rapporteur/draftsperson for the new EU data protection regulation, stated:

MEPs ask Hungarian government to change course and fully respect European values

THE GREENS/EUROPEAN FREE ALLIANCE

The European Parliament's civil liberties committee today adopted a report by Green MEP Rui Tavares (Portugal) on the situation of fundamental rights in Hungary. The committee approved over 40 recommendations to the Hungarian government and the European Commission that were in the draft report. The Greens/EFA group, in line with their initial position, supported an amendment calling for immediate activation of the process of Article 7 TEU.

DIGITALEUROPE establishes a Cloud Council

DIGITAL EUROPE

Press Release - Dublin, 19 June 2013. Today, DIGITALEUROPE announces the formation of a Cloud Council. Comprised of members of DIGITALEUROPE, the Cloud Council has a clear objective: to help ensure Europe reaps the full benefit from the jobs, economic growth and societal benefits that cloud computing can deliver.

“Battery Associations from North America and Europe, the Middle East and Africa join forces to strengthen workers’ protection”

EUROBAT

Battery Council International (North America) and EUROBAT (Europe, Middle East and Africa – EMEA) announced today the update of their voluntary blood lead mitigation programmes for employees of all their member companies, representing 90% of lead-based battery production in North America and EMEA.

ESMIG addresses data privacy issues of Smart Metering at high-level dinner debate

ESMIG - European Smart Metering Industry Group

Brussels – 19 June 2013 – ESMIG, the European Smart Metering Industry Group, presented its position and views on the data privacy issues associated with increasing deployment of Smart Metering technologies across Europe at a dinner-debate coorganised with the European Energy Forum, which was held at the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday 18 June 2013.
Frank Hyldmar, President of ESMIG addressed the subject “Smart Meters & Consumer: what happens to my data?”

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

Bertelsmann Stiftung

The new Bertelsmann Foundation project on Global Economic Dynamics (GED) launches today with the results of an ambitious and detailed econometric
simulation of the economic effects of the coming “Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership" (TTIP).

Our simulations are based on latest econometric world models, developed in
cooperation with the IFO-Institute’s Center for Economic Studies, mapping for the
first time the complex interrelations and shifts of international trade flows and
their effects on welfare and employment in 126 countries worldwide.

Tobacco industry interests put before public health in International Trade Committee vote

GUE/NGL Group in the EP
A majority of MEPs on the Parliament's International Trade Committee have today voted in favour of both less stringent rules on health warnings and tobacco packaging and for menthol to remain an additive in cigarettes. This vote result (15 in favour and 12 against) goes against the recommendations of public health groups and follows a massive tobacco industry lobbying campaign.

Call for urgent action to save eels teetering on the brink

THE GREENS/EUROPEAN FREE ALLIANCE

With the European eel stock in a precarious state across Europe, the European Parliament's fisheries committee today voted on legislative proposals on management of eel fisheries. The EU urgently needs to adopt a new recovery plan to give eel stocks a chance and there is also a need for a more sustainable approach to re-stocking. Green rapporteur/draftsperson Isabella Lövin is calling for a new EU regulation to reflect this and after the vote she said:

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