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CEEP welcomes EC step towards in-house

CEEP - European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing public services

CEEP welcomes the Commission staff working paper on the application of EU public procurement law to relations between contracting authorities (“public public cooperation”).This is a positive signal to public service providers who need clarity and simplicity when carrying out their mission for citizens.

Digital Agenda for SMEs: towards simplification, enhanced cross-border trade and diversified access to finance but further legal clarity and awareness raising are needed

ACCA

Brussels, 6 October 2011 - The digital agenda can help small enterprises take full advantage of the opportunities available in the Digital single market and be able to compete with international players. It is however crucial to raise further awareness of its benefits as its potential is still largely unexploited by this category of users. These were the conclusions of a roundtable on the benefits of the Digital agenda held in Brussels yesterday.

EHFG 2011: Personalised medecine could help to save 100 billion euros in annual health care costs

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

Despite huge increases in spending over the last three decades, progress in dealing with the most frequent and burdensome diseases is appalling. The EU Flagship Pilot IT Future of Medicine (ITFoM) could remedy that, experts said at the European Health Forum  Gastein. The flagship‘s investments of 1 billion euros in the course of the next decade are expected to save up to 100 billion euros per year in health expenditures in the future.

Intelligent control: innovative health financing models

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

Despite increasing demand, potential health care funding is limited, experts warned at the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG). So it is that much more imperative that national health policies be able to intelligently apply  control-oriented criteria in order to optimise services and to make better use of existing  resources. 

Strengthening the involvement of SMEs in European Standardization

CEN and CENELEC

Brussels, 7 October 2011 - The SME Standardization Toolkit (SMEST2) project has finalized the evaluation of the first version of the toolkit developed in 2009 and 2010. Based on the results and recommendation of SMEST1 an improved toolkit is currently being developed. Further analysis will be made of the standardization activities and potential benefits of standardization to SMEs.

Europe's taxi tested: alarming results

FIA EUROPEAN BUREAU

Expensive detours of up to 213 percent compared to the most direct route, speed violations exceeding the limit by up to 42km/h (in the city!), red light violations, aggressive driving, drivers swearing about traffic and complaining about passengers using taxis for short trips. These are only some of the shortcomings observed by EuroTest inspectors who tested taxi journeys across 22 major cities in Europe.

Portuguese farmers call for more innovative agricultural technologies to remain competitive, environmentally-friendly

EuropaBio

Brussels and Lisbon, 6 October 2011
Portuguese farmers have grown nearly 60% more genetically modified (GM) maize this year compared to last year, an increase of almost 3,000 ha to a total of 7,843 ha in 2011.  This impressive growth highlights the need for more innovative agricultural technologies in the European Union (EU). Compared to North and South America, Asia, and, increasingly, Africa, the EU has approved far fewer GM products, which directly affects farmers’ competitiveness. 

The ticking bomb of hazardous chemicals in consumer products

ANEC - The European Consumer Voice in Standardisation

ANEC calls on the European Union to wake up to the ticking bomb of hazardous chemicals in consumer products. At the moment, there is little – if any – regulation of these chemicals at European level, be it in childcare articles, electrical and electronic equipment or construction products. The regulations that do exist are vague or have so many exemptions that the result is the same: consumers continue to be exposed to hazardous chemicals in everyday articles.

Death of Steve Jobs: a visionary and entrepreneur extraordinaire. Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group

EPP Group in the European Parliament

"The world has lost, in the person of the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, a visionary, a communicator and an entrepreneur extraordinaire", said the Chairman of the biggest parliamentary Group in the European Parliament (EPP, centre-right).

Joseph Daul expressed his admiration for everything that Steve Jobs achieved, distinguished by his humility and his capacity to make the most sophisticated communication technologies accessible to the world.

Eurometaux welcomes the EP ENVI Committee 2nd reading vote on “recast proposals for the Waste Electric & Electronic Equipment Directive”

Eurometaux welcomes the EP ENVI Committee’s recognition of the importance of WEEE as a secondary source for critical raw materials as expressed through the vote on 4 October in second reading of the report prepared by MEP Florenz on the recast of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive.

Eurometaux believes that the strong incentives for Member States to collect all WEEE separately and the ambitious collection target to be achieved at Member State level will contribute to increased recycling of WEEE in Europe.

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