In a monitoring report issued today the European Commission finds a lack of progress in the reduction of trade barriers within the group of G20 countries.
"Nanomaterials" are materials whose main constituents have a dimension of between 1 and 100 billionth of a metre, according to a recommendation adopted by the European Commission today.
Despite the success of the EU's Single Market, barriers to cross-border trade remain. Many of these result from divergent sales laws between the 27 Member States. They make selling abroad complicated and costly, especially for small firms.
The European Commission presented its 2010 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) report "Are EU SMEs recovering from the crisis?" - including surveys on each EU Member State (the SBA Fact Sheets) - on the occasion of the SME Week taking place throughout Europe from 3–9 October.
ECHA has launched the 'REACH 2013 - Act Now!' campaign to remind the industry to start preparing for the second REACH registration deadline.
In the last three months to July 2011, manufacturing production was 4.5% higher than a year ago, but was almost unchanged compared to the first quarter.
The “Participant Portal” has become the European Commission's single authoritative website for the publication of Research Framework Programme calls.
The present call for proposals aims at improving the impact of innovation policies by speeding up the take up of design as a user-centered innovation tool in national, regional and EU innovation policies.
Through public procurement, European governments and public authorities can play an important role in promoting the uptake of innovative solutions and developing new markets, while simultaneously improving the quality of public services.
The recovery in manufacturing output continues, but at a more moderate pace than in the previous months. Recent declines in business confidence indicate that the pace of industrial recovery is normalising.
A key expert group set up by the Commission today set out guidelines on giving European industry a competitive edge in deploying the industrial technologies of the future (Key Enabling Technologies, KET).
