Europump publishes on its website the fingerprints-efficiency graph-to support manufacturers with the implementation of Regulation(EU)No 547/2012 of 25 June 2012 and esp.Annex II,2,15. The Europump Standards Commission worked hard on ...
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In June, negotiators from the Commission, European Parliament and Council hammered out an agreement at first reading on the Energy Efficiency Directive. The compromise has still to be formally approved by the Parliament in October to be ...
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European institutions on Wednesday beefed up cybersecurity efforts by establishing a permanent Computer Emergency Response Team(CERT-EU). The decision was made following a one-year test for the team,which works closely with the internal ...
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Twenty-two U.S.privacy and consumer groups have voiced support for a tough online privacy proposal being considered by the European Union,even though some U.S.businesses and government officials have described the proposal as too ...
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The European Commission today called for providers to share spectrum with one another in order to boost wireless connectivity across the region. In a report entitled Promoting the shared use of radio spectrum resources in the internal ...
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The European Parliament, the parliamentary institution of European Union, has recently called for the provision of information to consumers on the use of nanomaterials in consumer products: all ingredients present in the form of ...
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement(ACTA)has been rejected by the European Parliament and cannot become law in the EU. This was the first time that Parliament exercised its Lisbon Treaty power to reject an international trade ...
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IDG News Service-Members of the European Parliament rejected the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on Wednesday by 478 votes to 39. The result had been widely expected internationally and means that the agreement cannot ...
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By 2015, the European Parliament wants all new cars to automatically alert emergency services in case of a crash, a service known as eCall. The Parliament adopted a resolution to this effect in a show of hands on Tuesday, and urged the ...
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A plenary session of the European Parliament is scheduled to vote today to decide the fate of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement(Acta)in the European Union(EU). The US-backed treaty is designed to crack down on ...
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For Europe to take full advantage of the spectrum on its shores,broadcasters must share their allocations with mobile broadband providers. This was the conclusion of Neelie Kroes,a vice-president of the European Commission and the lead ...
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Confusion still remains over what exactly nanomaterials are being defined as. The European Commission, the European Union's Brussels-based executive, has at last published a definition of nanomaterials. But both environmentalists and ...
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