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— last modified 29 March 2007 Overview of new financial rules and funding opportunities 2007-2013.Advertisement In 2007, the European Union launches a new set of programmes, worth EUR 975 billion…

— last modified 28 March 2007 The EU is looking to reduce unwanted catches and eliminate discards in European fisheries. Discarding is the practice of dumping overboard unwanted fish or…

— last modified 13 March 2007 The new proposal is based on the fact that existing tax differentials on diesel used by trucks (“commercial gas oil”) create distortions of competition…

— last modified 13 March 2007 Commissioner Meglena Kuneva on 13 March set out more than 20 legislative and non legislative initiatives to boost the retail side of the European…

— last modified 23 August 2011 Nearly 23,700 workers dismissed due to economic crisis and major structural changes in world trade patterns were helped by the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund…

— last modified 27 October 2006 RoHS is the acronym for Restriction of Hazardous Substances, the European Union (EU) directive (Directive 2002/95/EC) which bans new electrical and electronic equipment from…

— last modified 12 October 2006 The issue of demographic ageing is not confined to older workers and pensioners. Europe’s population structure is changing. Demographic ageing affects the whole of…

— last modified 24 July 2008 The Generalised System of Preferences scheme – The GSP is an autonomous trade arrangement through which the EU provides non-reciprocal preferential access to the…

— last modified 26 August 2006 Tourism relates to a wide range of areas, to name only a few: employment, regional development, education, environment, consumer protection, health, safety, new technology,…

— last modified 26 August 2006 Open frontiers and affordable transport have given Europeans unprecedented levels of personal mobility. Goods are shipped rapidly and efficiently from factory to customer, often…