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Parliament takes step in the wrong direction on asylum system reform

The European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) committee reached a worrying compromise on the reform of the Dublin II regulation yesterday.

 

Eurofound publishes its 3rd European Quality of Life Survey (3EQLS) ‘Impacts of the crisis on Europe's citizens: Trends in quality of life’ on Thursday 29 November 2012

Declines of quality of life in all EU Member States, alarming levels in some, survey says

Toys: who ‘plays’ with chemicals?

In the weeks before Christmas, many parents will have the annual pleasure of choosing the right toys for their children. Although the new Toy Safety Directive, which entered into force in July 2011, certainly brought some improvements to toy safety in Europe, ANEC calls upon policy makers to take the health of children more seriously by significantly strengthening the chemical requirements for toys.

E2BA has launched the validation phase for its new research and innovation roadmap towards Horizon 2020

After the public consultation open from July to early October, the final version of the Energy-efficient Buildings PPP roadmap beyond 2013 is now available for final validation.

Dominique Reiniche of Coca-Cola Europe takes over Presidency of European Beverages Association

Dominique Reiniche, President of Coca-Cola Europe, has been elected president of UNESDA, the Union of European Beverages Associations, representing the non-alcoholic drinks industry in Europe.  She succeeds Zein Abdalla, CEO of PepsiCo, with immediate effect and her tenure will run to May 2015.  

Presentation of the findings of the report on “Wood Flows” by the Forestry Center of the University of Hamburg

You are cordially invited to:
Presentation of the findings of the report on “Wood Flows” by the Forestry Center of the University of Hamburg

Wednesday, 5 December 2012 from 15h30 to 17h00 at the European Parliament (Room A5F 385)

Introduction by the Hon. Gaston Franco, MEP, President of the Club du Bois
Presentations by:

ITU and GISFI to conduct Joint Workshop in Bangalore on Bridging the Standardization Gap: Sustainable Rural Communications

Advertising Association

Environmental Footprint – doubtful value for consumers while opening the door to market distortion for industry

Orgalime, the European engineering industries association, and ANEC, the European consumer voice in standardisation, are deeply concerned that the Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment is in the process of developing a harmonised methodology for the calculation of the environmental footprint of products, services and organisations with a view to assess, display and benchmark their environmental performance based on a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach.

Commissioner Oettinger will host on 26 November 2012 a conference on “the future of EU refining: safeguarding competitiveness"

Brussels, 22 November 2012: Günther Oettinger, Commissioner for Energy, will host on 26 November 2012 a conference “The Future of refining in the EU: Safeguarding competitiveness” to identify means to address EU refining competitiveness challenges.

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