The Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 912/2010 setting up the European GNSS Agency has been adopted on February 7th.
In the newspaper ABC (Sevilla), Luis M. Ontoso reports how the EGNOS technology, recently adopted in Spain by the AENA, will significantly improve the possibilities of Air Transport.
The Space Expo Mobile exhibition continues touring Europe and scores better and better results.
From 9 to 11 May 2013, the European GNSS Agency will be an important part taker in the European Helicopter Show in Hradec Králove (CZ), situated 110km North-East of the capital city Prague and around 40km from the Polish border.
The retail and wholesale services sector is one of the most important in the EU economy and should play an important part in stimulating growth and job creation.
The first switch-on of a Galileo SAR package functions well and marks a major extension of the space-based Cospas-Sarsat network.
"It’s more accurate, it can be completely on autopilot, it’s independent of any equipment on the ground at the airport and it gives you a lower safe altitude compared with traditional non-precision approaches."
Aena (Spain) has signed the EGNOS Working Agreement with ESSP.
To return to growth and higher levels of employment, Europe needs more entrepreneurs. With 4 million new jobs created every year, new companies, especially small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), create the most new jobs in Europe.
For the first time, the references of two harmonised standards with regard to ecodesign for electric motors and of one harmonised standard with regard to ecodesign for standby and off mode were published in the Official Journal.
Manufacturers of monitoring and control equipment are seeking new exemptions under the revised RoHS directive on hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. This product group was previously excluded from RoHS.
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The use of harmonised standards is optional but has the advantage of giving a 'presumption of conformity' with the essential requirements corresponding to its scope.
More than 150 harmonised standards provide solutions for compliance and confer a presumption of conformity with the relevant essential health and safety requirements of the electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) directive.
The European Commission has proposed to update the Radio Equipment Directive. The proposal aims to make sure all market players comply with the rules regarding the avoidance of interference, so that consumers do not have problems when opening car doors, monitoring their babies or listening to radio.
Europe needs to reverse the declining role of industry for the 21st century with the aim to deliver sustainable growth, create high-value job and solve societal challenge that we face. Immediate action should contribute to reverse the current downward trend from its current level of 15.6% of EU GDP to as much as 20% by 2020.
Complaints are often aired about the red tape created by European law. We want to cut red tape and we can. However, there is a definite lack of concrete proposals to reduce this burden. With this in mind, the European Commission is calling upon businesses: "Let us know what could be done better - we would like your ideas for reducing red tape!".
The harmonised standards, the references of which were published in the Official Journal last Friday, provide solutions for compliance and confer a presumption of conformity with the relevant essential health and safety requirements of the Machinery Directive.
A new consolidated list of references of harmonised standards under the low voltage directive 2006/95/EC was published in the Official Journal of the European Union OJ C 245 of 14 August 2012.
A consolidated list of references of harmonised standards under the measuring instruments directive 2004/22/EC have been published in the Official Journal.
