On the occasion of a meeting today, the ITU Secretary General, Hamadoun Touré, and the ETNO Executive Board Chair, Luigi Gambardella, reiterated the importance of the WCIT to lay the framework that will facilitate the further growth of an innovative, and sustainable future for the telecom and information and communication technology sector (including the Internet).

Brussels, 11 July, 2012: Europe’s creators are left disappointed and frustrated as the European Commission’s proposal for a Directive on Collective Rights Management, entrenches an outdated model and has put the interest of collecting societies’ managers, record labels and publishers ahead of those of the majority of authors.

Brussels, 10th July 2012 - T&D Europe  challenges results of a NGO-sponsored study on SF6 ban, which could jeopardise the EU, 20/20/20 targets.

EU wind power industry calls for a solution to rescue the ETS
 -  EWEA calls for removal of 2.6 billion emissions allowances  -

The now massive oversupply of CO2 emission allowances on the market must be addressed to avoid a collapse of the Emission Trading System (ETS) that was put in place to reduce CO2 emissions. The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) proposes the following two-step approach: 

• Firstly: delay 2.6 billion emission allowances due to be auctioned from 2013. 

Geneva, 10 July, 2012: Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced that its cloud storage system has passed the performance test of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).