Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

Personal tools
Sections
You are here: Home EU Guides
Document Actions

EU Guides

Up one level
EUbusiness Guides are background information and Questions & Answers about topical EU business issues.
Creation Date Description Title
26 March 2009, 23:23 CET Almost two out of three of Europeans consider that the quality of water in their country is a serious problem, according to a special Eurobarometer survey on Eu... Quality and quantity of water is a serious problem - Eurobarometer
26 March 2009, 13:43 CET Europe leads the world in mobile phone services with the number of subscriptions in 2008 at 119% of the EU population (up 7 percentage points from 2007), well a... Single European Telecoms Market 2008 progress report - briefing
18 March 2009, 23:29 CET The Commission on 17 March increased the internet capacity available across the Black Sea to researchers in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia)... GÉANT academic internet links to Black Sea region - briefing
18 March 2009, 23:25 CET The European Commission made today an important step forward in its efforts to ensure improved protection of human health and the environment, as it completed t... EU pesticide review programme
18 March 2009, 23:12 CET The European Commission adopted today two ecodesign regulations to improve the energy efficiency of household lamps and of office, street and industrial lightin... EU regulations to progressively remove from the market non-efficient light bulbs - briefing
18 March 2009, 23:09 CET Facts and figures on Trade and Investment between the European Union and the United States. EU-US Trade and Investment - briefing
17 March 2009, 00:40 CET Corporate social responsibility is companies acting voluntarily and beyond the law to achieve social and environmental objectives during the course of their dai... Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - briefing
12 March 2009, 23:42 CET As part of its effort to combat climate change and drive economic recovery, the European Commission today called on EU Member States and industry to use informa... ICT use for a greener Europe - briefing
11 March 2009, 23:47 CET On 11 March 2009 the European Parliament approved the European Union's third package of measures for maritime safety after the agreement reached in conciliation... EU maritime safety rules - briefing
05 March 2009, 17:15 CET The European Commission and Belgian authorities unveiled on 5 March 2009 plans for improvement of Brussels' main EU district, which has long been plagued by tra... European Commission buildings policy in Brussels - briefing
26 February 2009, 18:02 CET The European Commission has put forward a new proposal which would allow EU Member States to completely abolish financial reporting obligations for the EU's sma... Financial Reporting: burden reduction for micro-entities - briefing
26 February 2009, 17:57 CET The European Commission has provided guidance on the treatment of asset relief measures by EU Member States. Impaired assets correspond to categories of assets ... Treatment of Toxic Assets in the European Community Banking Sector - briefing
25 February 2009, 23:19 CET The European automotive sector, with 12 million jobs depending on this strategic industry, has been hit particularly hard by the current economic crisis with ne... EU support to fight the crisis in the automotive sector
26 February 2009, 00:04 CET The European Commission has provided guidance on the treatment of asset relief measures by EU Member States. Impaired or 'toxic' assets correspond to categories... EC guidance for the treatment of toxic assets in the EU banking sector
19 February 2009, 23:49 CET Questions and Answers on sanctions against employers of illegally staying third-country nationals EU sanctions against employers of illegally staying third-country nationals - briefing
19 February 2009, 17:10 CET The European Commission's interpreting service faces a potential succession crisis for linguists for a number of languages - and a shortage in several others. W... Interpretation in the EU - briefing
18 February 2009, 21:04 CET In response to the need to closely monitor the rapidly changing situation on a more frequent basis and provide up-to-date information on recent developments fol... Monthly monitoring report on EU employment and social situation - Feb 09
18 February 2009, 19:32 CET Two years ago, the European Commission reserved the number 116000 as a common missing children telephone hotline for the entire EU and called on Member States t... 116000 EU missing children hotline - briefing
18 February 2009, 19:27 CET The European Commission has today presented its Annual Policy Strategy which paves the way for establishing a policy agenda for 2010. While ensuring the continu... Commission policy priorities for 2010 - briefing
16 February 2009, 18:14 CET Europe is leading the world in switching from analogue to digital television. The European Commission is driving a coordinated approach to the freeing up and fu... Analogue terrestrial TV switch-off in the EU - briefing