Sustainable Growth

09 February 2016

Social Agenda – Pensions, disabled people and refugees

Just when the social partners are about to negotiate on how to better manage age at work, Social Agenda n°43 looks at the pension issue from all angles following the publication of two EU reports, on population ageing and on pension adequacy.

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09 March 2016

Celebrating 35 years of European Commission-IAEA cooperation on nuclear safeguards

Since 1981 the European Commission’s Joint research centre (JRC) has provided scientific and technical support to the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

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03 March 2016

Meeting of the European Electricity Regulatory Forum

The Electricity Regulatory Forum was set up to discuss the creation of the internal electricity market. It is currently addressing cross-border trade of electricity, in particular the tarification of cross-border electricity exchanges and the management o...

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01 March 2016

EU Refining Forum

The aim of the EU Refining Forum is to provide an opportunity for the industry, EU countries, members of the European Parliament, the Commission and other stakeholders to come together and discuss planned and future regulatory proposals with potentially s...

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29 January 2016

European Commission takes action to open up international procurement markets

Published : Fri, 29 Jan 2016 New tool aims at discouraging discrimination of EU companies in procurement markets of third countries.

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26 January 2016

Commission selects 6 "model regions" to lead the way toward a sustainable chemical industry

Published : Tue, 26 Jan 2016 The European Sustainable Chemicals Support Service kicks off this week with its first meeting and the selection of six model regions in the field of sustainable chemicals production.

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21 January 2016

Consultation on proposal to reform notifications of new regulatory requirements for services providers

Published : Thu, 21 Jan 2016 Tue, 19 Apr 2016 Today the European Commission published a public consultation on a possible proposal to reform the procedure whereby Member States notify new regulatory requirements applicable to services prov...

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06 January 2016

Conference on Energy-Intensive Industries - 15 February 2016

Published : Wed, 06 Jan 2016 European Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen and Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska are hosting a conference on energy-intensive industries (EII).

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04 February 2016

Economic advice in fisheries management

The European Commission (DG MARE) in collaboration with the European Association of Fisheries Economists (EAFE) and the University of Malta are co-organising the conference “Economic advice in fisheries management: a trilogue between science, administrati...

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28 January 2016

Managing and promoting sustainable and accessible tourism destinations

The purpose of this event, organised by the European Commission, in which sustainability and accessibility are presented as complementary strategies to successfully manage and promote tourism destinations, is to:

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