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Members of the European Parliament should support the harmonisation of national rules on roadworthiness testing for safer European roads

Brussels 26 June 2013 – In view of the vote in the plenary in Strasbourg next week, the IRU urges MEPs to fully support a roadmap to harmonise national rules on periodic roadworthiness testing and technical roadside checks in the future.

Cable Provides “Most Reliable Download Speeds” in Europe

Statement from Cable Europe Executive Chairman, Matthias Kurth:
 

The first ever Public Services Summit has come to an end after a successful two days in Dublin.
Entitled “Reshaping the Future”, participants and speakers explored how to reshape the future through new approaches to the management of services, management of the workforce and longterm investment.

Timid agreement on the future of European research policy

After six months of laborious negotiations, the European parliament and Council today reached agreement on Horizon 2020, the EU's Framework programme for research and innovation for the period 2014-2020. While the package deal has some good elements and allows for the preparation of the 2014 calls, it lacks the ambition that the European parliament's industry committee wanted to give it.

Philippe Lamberts, Greens/EFA MEP and group spokesperson on research policy, commented:

ECC reiterates importance of new expert study on UHF frequency band

Copenhagen, 26 June 2013 – As the spectrum community gathers together in Brussels for Forum Europe's European Spectrum Management Conference, the Electronic Communications Committee (ECC), the expert group responsible for harmonising the efficient use of the radio spectrum across Europe, reiterates its intention to set up a major study on the future use of UHF frequencies, with a special focus on 470-694 MHz, to consider the most effective spectrum management framework for its future use.

European Risk Policy Experts call for a practical approach to risk in EU policy-making

The European Risk Summit (www.risksummit.eu), hosted this month at Trinity College Dublin (11-12 June 2013), has brought renewed focus to the issue of evidence and risk-based rulemaking, and has highlighted the critical role that science plays in policy formation at EU level.
 

This land is our land: GUE/NGL MEPs highlight how land acquisitions tear apart local communities

In a bid to draw attention to the destructive effects corporate driven agriculture and transnational companies' actions have on small and medium-size farmers, landless people, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers, three GUE/NGL MEPs are today co-hosting a conference on land issues in Europe.

EWFA video demonstrates the energy efficiency capabilities of Window Film technology

EWFA, Brussels, 25 June 2013 -- In order to raise awareness on the capabilities and performance of Window Film technology, EWFA today releases a video explaining how Window Film contributes to recent European Union energy efficiency targets for new and existing buildings.

ACCA and IMA announce new global strategic initiative promoting Financial Leadership and Performance

ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants) announce a new strategic initiative for the global finance profession, Financial Leadership and Performance.

‘Untapped potential of all four Battery technologies highlighted during the EUROBAT Forum’

Gathering in Rome early June, representatives of Italy’s major transmission and distribution system operators confirmed that all four battery technologies will be required to provide energy storage in the country with each being suitable for different purposes and grid configurations. The key issue for all actors is to create appropriate market and regulatory conditions for facilitating the usage of energy storage technologies including batteries.

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