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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 |