Brussels, 31 March 2009.

Further to the article published in the Guardian today, 31 March 2009, “Follow that car: the box
that will let Big Brother track drivers anywhere in Europe”, ERTICO-ITS Europe, the European
partnership leading the CVIS project, would like to issue the following statement.

Chief executives and presidents of FIA automobile clubs in Europe gathered in Copenhagen for the 2009 FIA Eurocouncil summit to discuss road safety in Europe in anticipation of the 4th European Road Safety Action Programme expected to run from 2011-2020.

Published today, the resulting FIA Copenhagen Declaration expresses firm views held by the 65 motoring organisations, representing 35 million road users on what is needed if we want to seriously minimise the unnecessary carnage and suffering currently experienced on Europe’s roads.

Brussels, 12 June 2009 – New proposals from the European Commission on ‘fibre access networks’ could allow dominant firms to escape regulation, limiting choice in TV and broadband services, ECTA warns. The Commission’s proposed “Recommendation on Next Generation Access” suggests that if incumbents make a deal with just one operator, they could avoid requirements to offer cost-based access allowing their rivals to offer alternative services.

BUSINESSEUROPE, UEAPME, CEEP and ETUC,are pleased to invite you to a JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE

In the presence of Vladimir Špidla,

European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities

FROM 10H00 UNTIL 11H00 ON THURSDAY 18 JUNE 2009

AT BUSINESSEUROPE’s PREMISES, Room EUROPE,
Avenue CORTENBERGH 168, B-1000 BRUSSELS

Call to reduce the four million deaths annually, from a condition responsible for more fatalities globally than AIDS1 ROME, June 11 2009 – The World Health Organisation (WHO) and European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases (EFA) today announced that they are bringing together over 150 international delegates to discuss the growing epidemic of Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRD) that affects one billion people worldwide1,32, and is responsible for four million deaths annually.