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Breaking: MEPs vote tackle biofuel emissions from 2020
2013-09-11 13:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: MEPs have today approved a cap on the production of food crop-based biofuels and backed plans to measure indirect emissions from 2020. A European Parliament vote in Strasbourg confirmed fuels derived from food crops such as wheat, corn, or sugar cannot contribute more than six per cent towards the bloc's 2020 goal of sourcing 10 per cent of transport energy from renewable sources. MEPs also backed a 2.5 per cent share for advanced biofuels, which are derived from feedstocks such as algae or waste....
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Kroes outlines single market reforms to MEPs
2013-07-10 08:59:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Neelie Kroes, European commissioner for the Digital Agenda, has outlined her plans for new legislation to support the telecom single market at a presentation to the ITRE committee of the European Parliament. Kroes expects to introduce legislation on the proposals in September and put the changes into law before the parliamentary elections next spring. As outlined earlier, she plans an operator 'passport', similar to what exists in the financial services sector, where authorisation to operate in one country is valid throughout the EU, and the operator need answer only to the regulator in its home country. More standardised network access products across the EU, such as virtual bitstream, higher quality interconnection and coordinated spectrum licensing, is also expected to encourage operators to cross borders. On the consumer side, Kroes reiterated her call for an end to higher fees for roaming or international calls and said she plans to introduce an element of 'net neutrality' in the law. The latter would see any form of "blocking or throttling" of specific services by operators, on any network or device, prohibited.
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MEPs strike 95g/km deal with Irish Presidency for car CO2 emissions
2013-06-26 15:30:15| Green Car Congress
EUROPE: MEPs want review of Bangladesh duty-free access
2013-05-28 18:00:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The European Parliament is calling for a review of Bangladesh's compliance with the human rights conventions that give the country privileged access for its garments and other products to the EU market.
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IFA's CAP Campaign Focuses on Role of MEPs in Final Outcome
2013-04-12 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
IRELAND - IFA President John Bryan will engage in an intensive round of discussions with the rapporteurs from the main groups in the European Parliament and Irish MEPs next week, as IFA’s campaign on CAP Reform intensifies.