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Orgalime - REACH REVIEW - Orgalime Position Paper 20 March 2013

Orgalime

In the context of REACH, Orgalime represents a major EU downstream user industry of chemical substances and preparations as well as EU producers and importers of final articles including many of their components for both, professional customers and private consumers. The EU engineering industries are clients of the chemical industry and supplier of capital goods to all other industry sectors, including the automotive, aerospace, chemical, food or textile industries as well as to the health and environment sectors.

European Citizens' Initiative still too weak for real change

ECAS - European Citizen Action Service

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.

IMAA

Transport Committee fails to give flawed proposal on ground handling market the boot

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

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."

 

Renewable energy

THE GREENS/EUROPEAN FREE ALLIANCE

The energy and industry committee today adopted a report setting out its position on renewable energy policy up to and beyond 2020. The report adopted by the committee was significantly improved from original drafts, notably underlining the importance of renewable energy and the need to preserve successful national support schemes, but the Greens voted against in the final vote due to the failure to clearly commit to an ambitious binding EU 2030 target for renewable energy. After the vote, Green energy spokesperson Claude Turmes MEP said:

Personal data protection: EP Legal Affairs Committee adopts text that reflects citizens' expectation in the 21st century. Marielle Gallo MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

"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.

SMEs and Standardization' European Conference

CEN and CENELEC
Remind me
Tue, 05/28/2013

Register today and secure your participation
Participation is free of charge and all interested stakeholders are welcome to register online.
Places are limited and will be distributed in a first-come, first-served basis.
Please e-mail us in case of any questions. 
 

Proposed international auditing standard will boost the quality of corporate reporting

ACCA

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. 

Drive to reduce transparent reporting by SMEs should not be at expense of essential stakeholder safeguards, says ACCA

ACCA

Rules on accounting and audit are no longer seen universally as a necessary measure for protecting the interests of shareholders and creditors in small limited companies, but still amount to an important element of the wider framework of stakeholder safeguards. 

Private sector should be protecting the natural environment, say accountants in ACCA natural capital survey

ACCA

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).

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