The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has said that it welcomes the European Parliament's decision to reject the European Commission's (EC) proposal to reduce the number of free carbon allowances. According to EUROFER, the European ...
Tags: EU Parliament, Carbon Allowances
Improving users' experiences is no justification for using consumer information in big data projects, according to Europe's top data protection officials. The Article 29 Working Group, which includes the data protection supervisors from ...
Tags: Data, software, Computer Products
EU-listed and large private oil, gas and mining companies will be forced to reveal more about their payments to governments under new EU rules agreed informally late Tuesday by EU negotiators. Some big oil companies, including Shell, had ...
The garment manufacturers of Pakistan are pinning hope on the approval of the European Union’s Generalized System of Preference Plus (GSP Plus) status to their country by the EU Commission at Brussels. According to the industry ...
Tags: Garment Makers, Garment, Apparel
North West MEP, Chris Davies, saw first-hand the benefits of NSG Group’s investment in a new high-tech off-line glass coating facility, during a visit to a Pilkington Glass factory in St Helens. The North West of England MEP and ...
Tags: energy saving glass, glass, glass coating
The European Commission has today presented a package of initiatives to make trademark registration systems all over the European Union cheaper, quicker, more reliable and predictable. The proposed reform would improve conditions for ...
Analysts say the proposal for internet users to delete their online data and become invisible online could create a black hole in the web economy. Tineka Smith reports. Last year the European Commission announced proposals for the 'right ...
Tags: internet, web economy, cyber security
The chance of infection by malware from counterfeit software is three in 10 for businesses, and one in three for consumers, according to a new study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by research firm IDC. Police prevented from ...
Tags: malware, counterfeit software, Microsoft
Europe is planning a co-ordinated response to Google’s data collection practices, says the Wall Street Journal. The French Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et de Libertes (CNIL) says it, and other European privacy ...
Tags: Europe, Google, co-ordinated response
CBR talked with Chris Mathews, CTO at SysMech about the European Commission's proposal to give consumers the right to be forgotten online and how it will affect any company that deals with data. The European Commission's proposal to allow ...
Tags: data industry, internet, Google
The European Commission (EC) has held a roundtable meeting today, February 12, attended by representatives from 13 steel producing member states and the European Parliament, regarding the EC's plan to deliver an action plan by June to ...
Tags: EU, Steel Industry, Mineral
American technology giants including Google, Yahoo and Amazon have been criticised by privacy groups and European regulators for lobbying in Washington against new EU data privacy laws. The American firms are campaigning for more relaxed ...
Tags: Google, Yahoo, Amazon, EU data privacy laws
Google’s Transparency Reports, which are released every six months, are interesting not just for what they reveal about government requests for Internet user data, but also for what they fail to reveal. Transparency reports are ...
The European Commission’s latest cyber security strategy has been slammed by a member of the European Parliament, who accused the strategy of being “incoherent and lacking in focus” on Thursday. The Cyber Security ...
Tags: Politician, EU, Cyber Security Strategy
A whole host of companies have called on the EU to deliver 2030 energy efficiency goals that would bring forward large scale investments that could slash fuel spending. Indeed, Siemens, Philips and Kingspan are among a group of major ...