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European Parliament backs 6% cap on land-based biofuels, switchover to advanced biofuels; no mandate
2013-09-11 22:30:21| Green Car Congress
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EC sends telecom legislation to parliament
2013-09-11 18:03:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The European Commission has sent draft legislation to parliament aimed at strengthening the EU market for telecom services. Creating a single market across the 28-country bloc is promoted as a way to boost economic growth and investment and create jobs in the high-value digital sector. According to the EC, the telecom sector currently suffers from fragmentation along national borders; a lack of regulatory consistency and predictability; unfairly high prices for specific services; and a lack of investment. The legislation aims to remedy three elements of the single market: allowing consumers to obtain services from any EU operator, without discrimination, regardless of where they are based; letting operators offer competitive services outside of their home country and market to consumers based throughout the EU; and ending excessive charges for intra-EU calls or when using a mobile elsewhere in the EU. While the EC favours creating a single EU regulator with a unified system of regulatory remedies, its proposal takes a more gradual approach, in the hope of passing the legislation before the parliamentary elections next spring. The European Parliament and Council will now enter negotiations to agree on a final version of the legislation, before it goes to a vote. See Telecompaper's additional coverage for the EC's detailed proposals on the new regulatory framework, net neutrality and consumer issues, spectrum harmonisation and roaming regulations.
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EU Parliament told to expect more revelations about NSA spying
2013-09-06 03:22:29| Wireless - Topix.net
At the start of an inquiry into American government communications surveillance programs Thursday, European parliamentarians were told to expect further revelations of mass spying by the U.S. National Security Agency .
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Breaking: European Parliament back plans to push up carbon price
2013-07-03 12:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The European Parliament has approved plans designed to boost the EU's carbon market and drive green investment by tackling the glut of allowances that have sunk the price of CO2 to record lows this year. MEPs in Strasbourg today voted in favour of "backloading" proposals at a plenary vote in Strasbourg, approving plans for the European Commission to temporarily postpone the auction of 900 million allowances for the bloc's Emissions Trading System (ETS). The proposals were agreed as a compromise...
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Carbon Permit Backloading Fight Continues in European Parliament
2013-06-28 12:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ICTS: A European Commission plan to delay the auctioning of millions of carbon permits received a new boost last week, after a European Parliament committee signed off on the proposal. The legislation must still be approved by the full Parliament later this summer, which had rejected an earlier version. The move to delay permit auctions - a practice known as backloading - is aimed at boosting the prices of such permits, which underpin the EU`s Emissions Trading System (ETS). An oversupply of permits,...
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