Monday, September 20th, 2010
EU – The European Commission today adopted a proposal to provide better rail services for passenger and freight users by: increasing competition on the railway market; strengthening the power of national regulators; and improving the framework for investment in rail. The proposal for a Directive establishing a Single Rail Area is an exercise in legislative simplification
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
EU – I have often said that energy is the lifeblood of a modern society. We need a reliable source of electricity to fuel development. However, today 1.6 billion people worldwide have no access to electricity, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia and that, with business as usual, the number of people without
Sunday, September 12th, 2010
EUROGEOGRAPHICS – The European Commission has the intention to set up a consultative group of GNSS (Global Satellite Navigation System) experts called the Mission Evolution Advisory Group (MEAG). The primary task of this group of experts is to provide recommendations on potential evolutions of the mission objectives and the service definitions for the European satellite navigation programmes Galileo and
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
EU – The European Commission today adopted a decision outlining the criteria necessary to achieve good environmental status for Europe’s seas. This will help Member States to develop coordinated marine strategies within each regional sea, ensuring consistency and allowing progress to be compared between regions. The definition of the criteria is a requirement under the Marine
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
EU – The European Commission today adopted a decision outlining the criteria necessary to achieve good environmental status for Europe’s seas. This will help Member States to develop coordinated marine strategies within each regional sea, ensuring consistency and allowing progress to be compared between regions. The definition of the criteria is a requirement under the Marine
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
EU – Hardly anybody would have forecast 10 years ago that the business world would look as it does today. We use no typewriters any more and most information is available and exchanged electronically. How will the industrial world look in 10 years time? Which products and technologies will we use to produce goods, to do
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
The JRC has recently published an “Invitation to Tender” for the “development of the technical components of the INSPIRE Geo-portal at European Union level “. Both the contract notice (http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:234033-2010:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0) and the full text of the ITT (http://web.jrc.ec.europa.eu/callsfortender/index.cfm?action=app.homepage&instdir=5&type=1) are publically available.
Friday, August 13th, 2010
Today the 2009 Environment Policy Review was published. It reports on EU policy developments from last year and looks in detail at EU and Member States’ environmental trends and policy performance. Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik said: “The 2009 Environment Policy Review shows that Member States adopted and implemented a variety of environmental policy measures. It
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
The fourth call for proposals under the Seventh Framework Programme’s space theme was published on 20 July 2010. The deadline of this call is 25 November 2010 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time). The objective of the FP7 space work programme is to support a European Space Policy focussing on applications such as GMES ,
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
EU – A survey was conducted in November 2009 to measure the local perceptions of quality of life in 75 cities. It includes 70 cities in the 27 Member States of the European Union and 5 cities in Croatia and Turkey. Read More
