EU Legislation, Initiatives, etc.
EU News: The EU should not revise its policy, agreed in 1996, on Cuba (i.e. no dialogue with Havana in the absence of progress on democracy & human rights) as there is no sign of genuine political change there, and hundreds of political prisoners are still behind bars.
Press release ~ Human Rights Subcommittee ~ Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2005: "Ladies, Ibrahim and Reporters joint Sakharov prize winners" ~ Council conclusions on Evaluation of the EU Common Position on Cuba
EU News: The new capital requirement standards (agreed by the Basel Banking Committee recently) tackle some of the right issues, but ‘need much more work to transpose them into laws that ensure a global level playing field, reduce risk and do not hamper economic growth’, says an own-initiative resolution approved by Parliament's Economic Affairs Committee on last week.
The resolution gives a foretaste of the position that Parliament could take later this year on the European Commission proposals to update the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD IV), which is to transpose the Basel standards into EU law.
EU News: EU researchers will have sustainable & continuous access to the combined processing power of over 200,000 desktop computers in more than 30 European countries thanks to the European Commission funded European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) project launched last week.
The Commission is contributing €25m over 4 years to the EGI-InSPIRE project to link the processing capacity of desktop computers when they would otherwise be idle and so give researchers the processing power needed to tackle complex problems in environment, energy or health.
Press release ~ www.egi.eu ~ EGI-InSPIRE project ~ EC: e-infrastructure ~ Enabling Grid for eScience ~MEMO/10/199 ~ MEMO/10/200) ~ IP/10/706)
EU News: The Commission reminds companies that they must register the most widely used or most dangerous chemicals by the deadline of 30 November 2010, less than 10 weeks from now – See ‘Business and other Briefings’ section for more information.
