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Energy 2030 & European Industrial Renaissance: Unilateral climate action contradicts 20 pct industrial target — 25 February 2015, 18:28 CET

EUROCHAMBRES is critical of the incoherence between the communications on industrial policy and energy 2030 presented today by the European Commission, arguing that they reveal a lack of governance and coordination between the administration’s services.

EU-US trade deal threatens food safety — 05 February 2015, 22:51 CET

The trade agreement being negotiated between the US and EU threatens public health, consumer rights and animal welfare standards, shows new analysis today by food and trade experts. The criticisms come as negotiators from both sides of the Atlantic meet behind closed doors in Brussels, Belgium this week to start writing new food safety rules for the trade deal and as hundreds of people demonstrated against the ‘Trojan Horse Treaty’.

European Parliament votes through new powers for governments to ban GM crops — 13 January 2015, 16:20 CET

The European Parliament today voted to grant national governments new powers to ban the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in their territories. Today’s decision by the European Parliament for the first time allows governments to ban entire categories of GM crops.

European Audiovisual Observatory publishes new IRIS Special report — 10 December 2014, 00:30 CET

Who’s afraid of the big bad data? New forms of audiovisual commercial communications in a converged audiovisual sector

Pope Francis speaks out on human rights and care for creation when addressing European Parliament — 25 November 2014, 19:01 CET

The alliance of Catholic development agencies, CIDSE, welcomes the address of Pope Francis to the European Parliament today, November 25, 2014. Continuing on his encyclical Evangelii Gaudium, CIDSE sees in the Pope’s message a challenge to current consumerism and models of economy.

Greenpeace exposes 20 European fishing vessels responsible for destructive fishing — 04 November 2014, 17:20 CET

Greenpeace is exposing today 20 of the most destructive fishing vessels operating under European flags, ownership or management, two months ahead of a European Union deadline to end overfishing.

Tripartite Social Summit: Put competitiveness first, including in Climate Policy — 23 October 2014, 15:30 CET

On the eve of the European Council, at the Tripartite Summit, European Social Partners met with the Heads of State, the European Union President Van Rompuy and the EU Commission President Barroso on the topic “how to stimulate investments to create more jobs”. UEAPME – the European Craft and SME association – insists on the need to make best use of the growth momentum by putting SMEs’ competitiveness at the forefront.

Implementation of the Green Action Plan for SMEs risks to fail — 02 July 2014, 16:55 CET

Today, the European Commission published its new Green Action Plan for SMEs presenting a solid list of actions aimed at improving SMEs' resource efficiency.

Ministers support giving biotech companies say in decisions on GM crops — 12 June 2014, 23:21 CET

Today’s vote by EU environment ministers in favour of a new law that would theoretically allow individual countries to ban genetically modified (GM) crops is a poisoned chalice which could open Europe’s fields to more biotech crops, says Friends of the Earth Europe.

EU introduces new consumer rights — 12 June 2014, 23:16 CET

A range of new consumer rights will apply in all 28 EU Member States as of Friday, June 13.

Election countdown: The European Parliament’s significance for consumers — 22 May 2014, 23:30 CET

This week's European elections will be hugely important for the daily lives of 500 million consumers. In the next 5 years, many consumer issues will be at stake – from unfair banking practices to EU data protection laws.

New analysis of genetically engineered maize 1507: Risk research controlled by industry — 10 April 2014, 23:06 CET

In just a few weeks time the EU Commission could give permission for the commercial cultivation of maize 1507.

Long-term finance: positive on regulation but not enough for SMEs — 27 March 2014, 17:00 CET

UEAPME welcomes progress on regulatory aspects, but criticises poor proposals for SME finance

Implementation of eCall requires all parties to be ready together, says auto industry — 27 February 2014, 17:33 CET

The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) takes note of today’s vote in the European Parliament on eCall, a system designed to automatically alert emergency services in the event of a road traffic accident or collision.

Fear of change could precipitate demise of Europe's energy giants — 27 February 2014, 17:16 CET

Europe’s largest power companies are in trouble because of their reluctance to question dated business models in the face of far-reaching structural changes to Europe’s energy market, according to a new report released today.

Roaming in the EU - New figures highlight continuing high costs - BEUC — 17 February 2014, 16:22 CET

Following today's publication by the European Commission of its pan-EU household survey on telecoms roaming costs, Monique Goyens, Director General of The European Consumer Organisation commented:

Record number of EU countries opposes Commission plan to allow pesticide-producing GM maize — 11 February 2014, 15:39 CET

A substantial majority of EU countries has voted against a Commission plan to allow the cultivation of a genetically modified (GM) maize, known as 1507. Greenpeace warned that if the Commission nonetheless authorised the crop, despite the political opposition and concerns about its environmental impacts, it would be acting illegally.

Stop toying with our health! — 03 February 2014, 18:18 CET

A significant number of notifications related to toys and to chemical risks has been revealed with today's release of the 2012 RAPEX Annual Report.

MEPs support the universal mobile phone charger — 03 February 2014, 18:17 CET

On 26 September, the Internal Market & Consumer Protection Committee of the European Parliament unanimously adopted MEP Weiler’s report on the proposed directive on radio equipment. ANEC welcomes the support of MEPs for an amendment intended to see the introduction of a universal charger for all mobile phones.

Standards for playground surfaces should better reflect the balance between play and protection against falls — 03 February 2014, 18:17 CET

Falls from playground equipment were the focus of an international conference hosted yesterday by TÜV AUSTRIA, a third party inspection, testing & certification body, and ANEC, the European consumer voice in standardisation.

Toys: who 'plays' with chemicals? — 03 February 2014, 18:16 CET

In the weeks before Christmas, many parents will have the annual pleasure of choosing the right toys for their children. Although the new Toy Safety Directive, which entered into force in July 2011, certainly brought some improvements to toy safety in Europe, ANEC calls upon policy makers to take the health of children more seriously by significantly strengthening the chemical requirements for toys.

The New European Consumer Agenda: the start of a 'Consumer Spring'? — 03 February 2014, 18:16 CET

"ANEC welcomes the proposal of the European Commission, unveiled today, to strengthen consumer confidence and put consumers at the centre of the Single Market", said ANEC Secretary-General, Stephen Russell.

Belt up! i-Size ready for take-off! — 03 February 2014, 18:16 CET

On 9 July 2013, the new child restraint regulation came into force. Manufacturers are now able to have Child-Restraint Systems (CRS) meeting the new i-Size Regulation type-approved. The new Regulation (R129) can be seen as an enhancement of the well-known UNECE Regulation 44 (R44), and covers integral harness ISOFIX child restraints exclusively. They can be recognised by the i-Size label on the product.

Consumers wrong-footed on environmental footprint — 03 February 2014, 18:16 CET

ANEC has published a detailed critique of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a measure of environmental impacts: "Environmental assessment goes astray. A critique of environmental footprint methodology and its ingredients", and calls on the European Commission to re-think its approach to environmental assessment.

EUROCHAMBRES' better policy-making priorities for the next EU term — 30 January 2014, 22:28 CET

EUROCHAMBRES presented 10 better European policy-making priorities for the next five year EU legislative term during a major conference the association hosted today in the European Parliament.