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08 December 2008, 23:49 CET The EU Council on 8 December endorsed the "EU Drugs Action Plan for 2009-2012". The endorsed Action Plan includes wide-ranging measures to strengthen European c... EU action plan on drugs 2009-2012 - briefing
08 December 2008, 23:43 CET The European Commission has adopted important safety and quality measures for organ donation and a 10 point action plan to work with EU Member States on strengt... EU Directive and Action Plan on organ donation and transplantation - briefing
08 December 2008, 23:33 CET The Commission adopted on 4 December two legislative proposals establishing sets of rights for passengers using bus and maritime services on both domestic and i... Bus and maritime passenger rights proposal - briefing
04 December 2008, 01:04 CET The European Commission's ambitious proposal for the Eastern Partnership represents a step change in the EU's relations with its Eastern Partners as it aims at ... Eastern Partnership - briefing
03 December 2008, 23:45 CET Improving implementation and enforcement of laws on electrical and electronic equipment and cutting unnecessary administrative burden are the main objectives of... Revised EU directive on restrictions of certain dangerous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS) - briefing
03 December 2008, 23:43 CET Improving implementation and enforcement of laws on electrical and electronic equipment and cutting unnecessary administrative burden are the main objectives of... Revised laws on recycling electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) - briefing
03 December 2008, 23:35 CET The European Commission has adopted proposals to amend three of the existing legislative instruments of the Common European Asylum System: the Directive on rece... Common European Asylum System - briefing
02 December 2008, 01:21 CET From 1 December 2008, new rules on tax and duty free imports enter into force. Travellers will benefit from cost savings when importing goods into the EU in the... Duty-free imports: New rules for travellers' allowances into the European Union - briefing
28 November 2008, 13:24 CET The European Commission has published its preliminary report on the competition inquiry into the pharmaceutical sector, which finds that competition in this ind... Preliminary EU report on pharmaceutical sector inquiry - briefing
27 November 2008, 18:15 CET The European Commission has published a Green Paper on Consumer Collective Redress on how to facilitate redress in situations where large numbers of consumers h... Consumer Collective Redress - briefing
27 November 2008, 15:24 CET The European Commission decided on 27 November to ask Germany formally to modify the 1960 law privatising Volkswagen (VW law) following a ruling of 23 October 2... The EU and Germany's Volkswagen law - briefing
26 November 2008, 19:49 CET On 25-26 November 2008, in Bordeaux, ministers responsible for vocational education and training (VET) of the EU Member States, the EFTA/EEA and candidate count... Bordeaux Communiqué - European Vocational Education and Training policy (VET) - briefing
26 November 2008, 14:57 CET The European Commission presented on 26 November a comprehensive plan to drive Europe's recovery from the current economic crisis. The Recovery Plan is based on... European Economic Recovery Plan - briefing
25 November 2008, 15:58 CET The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) meeting in Marrakech, Morocco reached consensus on 25 November on a plan to strengthe... ICCAT revised recovery plan for bluefin tuna - briefing
20 November 2008, 16:55 CET Europeana, Europe's multimedia online library opens to the public today. At www.europeana.eu, Internet users around the world can now access more than two milli... Europeana, Europe's Digital Library - briefing
20 November 2008, 16:44 CET EU agriculture ministers on 20 November reached political agreement on a 'Health Check' of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy. The Health Check will modernise,... CAP Health Check - briefing
20 November 2008, 17:40 CET The European Commission in 2007 recruited more women than men in all employment categories. Women accounted for 50.6% of appointments to administrator posts and... Equal opportunities for women and men at the European Commission - briefing
19 November 2008, 22:31 CET The European Union's Agriculture Council on 19 November reached political agreement on a European Commission proposal for a European Union-wide scheme to provid... EU School Fruit Scheme - briefing
18 November 2008, 20:31 CET A European Commission report published on 18 November 2008 shows that mobile workers from the countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 have had a positive ... Employment in Europe Report 2008 - briefing
17 November 2008, 22:36 CET Following the successful "Joint U.S.-EU-China Initiative on Consumer Product Safety Compliance" held in China in September 2008, the product safety authorities ... EU - US - China summit on product safety - briefing