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WLTP: more rigorous lab test for cars comes into force later this year

May 3, 2017

Right now, Europe’s auto makers are preparing for the introduction of the Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure, better known by its acronym WLTP. WLTP is a more rigorous laboratory test for measuring pollutant and CO2 emissions from passenger cars that will come into force later this year. From September 2017, WLTP will officially apply… » read more

  Posted by Secretary General of the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA)

blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Health & Consumers, Science & Policymaking, Transport

Making our cities healthier by unmasking them

May 2, 2017

Genval, 2nd May 2017 – Air pollution is a major public health challenge of our time. The public health context in terms of protecting EU citizens’ health and reducing the chronic disease burden and its associated costs to healthcare systems is a vital consideration in the debate concerning polluted air in European Cities. (source of… » read more

  Posted by Hungarian-European Citizen

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Quality of Care and Medicines Use are Linked

April 18, 2017

A central feature of any high performing healthcare system or organisation includes best practice in medicines use and management. As all aspects of healthcare are under varying degrees of financial stress these days, cost controls and appropriate use of medicines must support the highest standards of clinical practice and safe patient care. Medicines optimisation is… » read more

  Posted by Euro-Sante :: Euro-Health

blogactiv, Innovation and Growth

Don’t let me Down

March 30, 2017

Why it is time to start talking about eugenics He hugged me. Tight. He always noticed when someone was sad. He’d look at me with his blue almond-shaped eyes, and it felt as though I was the only person in the world. Danny is special. He even has his own special day. On March 21st… » read more

  Posted by The Freedom Blog

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Time to end barriers to trade for food

March 27, 2017

By Elias Papadopoulos, Political Consultant In early March the European Commission published a Roadmap on the Evaluation of the Regulation on the functioning of the internal market. In place since 1998, an assessment of the Regulation is indeed long overdue. Perhaps nowhere is intra-EU free trade more problematic than when it comes to food. As… » read more

  Posted by The Whitehouse Consultancy

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CJEU condemns German price-fixing system for prescription-only medicinal products…

March 10, 2017

by Julia Sinnig On 22 August 2012, the Joint Chamber of the Superior Federal Courts of Germany[1], consisting of the Federal Social Court and the Federal Court of Justice of Germany, held that the German price-fixing system for prescription-only medicinal products applying to German pharmacies as well as to mail-order supplies from pharmacies established in… » read more

  Posted by RSIEAblog

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No More Blame Game: Back to the Future of Comitology. By Maria Weimer

February 20, 2017

Political responsibility of Member States for sensitive EU executive action will be hard to get, but it is worth trying. On 14 February 2017, the European Commission submitted a proposal to reform the EU comitology system. It aims at enhancing the transparency and accountability of implementation of EU law in certain highly contentious policy areas,… » read more

  Posted by ACELG

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By the European Parliament’s approval of CETA, pandora’s box is open for its unhealthy side effects

February 17, 2017

Genval, 15th February – Today, the European Parliament has given its consent to the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). In line with the usual European practice, CETA will be temporarily applied as from 1st March, a controversial practice which raises many eyebrows. This is a sad day for public health policy as now… » read more

  Posted by Hungarian-European Citizen

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Progress in improving truck safety

January 30, 2017

Traditionally, the new year in Brussels kicks off with the annual European Motor Show. The 2017 edition paid special attention to commercial vehicles with a dedicated Truck & Transport exhibition. ACEA took this opportunity to organise a special tour on truck safety for European policy makers and road safety experts dealing with heavy-duty vehicles. The… » read more

  Posted by Secretary General of the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA)

blogactiv, Health & Consumers, Transport

Can the CETA Vote Raise the ’Dead’ Grand Coalition?

January 11, 2017

Brussels, 10th January 2016 – Many claim that the Grand Coalition (the legislative cooperation between the social and christian democrats) is ’dead’ but to believe it, it should be put to the test: the upcoming votes in the European Parliament on the approval of CETA, the EU-Canada trade deal will tell the truth. European Parliament… » read more

  Posted by Hungarian-European Citizen

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