Ninety-four per cent of bathing sites in the European Union meet minimum standards for water quality, according to the European Environment Agency's annual report on bathing water quality in Europe. Water quality is excellent at 78 % of sites and almost 2 % more sites meet the minimum requirements compared to last year's report.
The European Commission has launched a new initiative to improve port operations and onward transport connections at 319 key seaports along Europe’s coastline. The guidelines and legal changes being proposed will help port operators upgrade their services and facilities as well as giving them more financial autonomy.
The project implemented by Active Citizenship Network "Future active citizens: volunteering as an exercise of democracy" has been identified as one of these 30 good practice projects in the field of Active European Citizenship by the E.N.T.E.R. (European Network for Transfer and Exploitation of EU-Project Results) on behalf of the European Commission. The project will be presented during the European Conference from 26-27 June 2013 in London, UK.
The pronunciation comes from the Court of Justice of the European Union and relates to a lawsuit filed by two Danish workers, suffering from a chronic disease, fired for too many days of absence from their respective companies. For the European judges a disease, if it involves physical limitations, mental or psychological impairments that prevent the full participation and regular professional activity, is considered a form of disability.
The International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics has published an abstract on the work that has been done in Italy to improve the safety of birth centers, edited by "Italian Working Group for safety at Birth", which is part of the Court for the rights of ill-Cittadinanzattiva, along with doctors and professionals.
It is a problem that you do not talk much, but in Europe will soon be regulated by a Directive (2010/32/EU a), written two years ago and that must be implemented by each member state by May 11, 2013: it is the prevention and elimination of the risk of infection for health care workers, and the aim is the highest possible level of safety of the work environment, avoiding any possible health workers exposure to biohazardous.
The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) invites patient advocates to apply for the organization’s Advocacy Travel Awards. The IASLC will offer travel awards to a limited number of patient advocates to participate in the World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) Oct. 27-30, 2013 in Sydney, Australia.
Smartphones and tablets store a large amount of personal information such as pictures, videos, messages, traffic data, etc. To make Italian users better aware of how important it is to protect this information, the Italian Data Protection Authority created a tutorial video providing simple, useful tips to protect one's privacy when using tablets or smartphones.
The objective of this green paper is to consult stakeholders on possible responses to the public policy challenges posed by plastic waste which are at present not specifically addressed in the EU Waste legislation.
A scholarship programme for professionals active in Citizenship Education from Central and Southeastern Europe. The German Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Robert Bosch Stiftung are awarding 16 scholarships to active professionals from Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Greece, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. They are looking for people at the beginning of their professional careers who wish to be active internationally, and applicants to already be actively promoting democracy and social responsibility in their own countries and to be engaged in civic education. Closing date for applications: June 16th 2013.