In the last years the European policy for the management of chemicals is deeply changed after entering into force of the European Regulations (EC) no. 1907/2006 and (EC) no. 1272/2008. The implementation of the two Regulations requests a strong effort both from the enterprises and from national and regional institutions. The activities already realised or that are planned for the implementation...

To assist in understanding trends in the field of Evolutionary Computation (EC) and in helping graduates find jobs in EC we conducted a survey from March 2005 to February 2006 on members of the EC community. The analysis reveals various technology transfer strategies and activities took place during the past 50 years: parallel exploration of multiple application areas; a combination of exploita...

The Union Europe enne des Me decins SpeÂcialistes (UEMS) Section Anaesthesiology Reanimation and Intensive Care is privileged to be able to publish the training guidelines in this issue of the Journal. This publication, by reaching a wide audience, will promote the aims of this UEMS Section by harmonizing training programmes and achieving minimum standards of training and expertize among the ...

In the last 20 years standards in the context of information security rapidly developed and reached a high level of maturity. Information security also is an important task in the context of data protection, as outlined by the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. However, this Directive does not explicitly relate to standards in the context of information security, security requirements...

Introduction. This paper describes one of the activities of the Dependable Software Applications (DSA) sector at the Joint Research Centre in Italy. The activity is part of their support work to DGIII of the European Commission (EC). It reflects an aspect of DSA’s continuous support process and mirrors our beliefs in the process of enhancing European industrial competitiveness by defining resea...

This paper investigates the application of text similarity techniques to automatically detect the transposition of European Union (EU) directives into the national law. Currently, the European Commission (EC) resorts to time consuming and expensive manual methods like conformity checking studies and legal analysis for identifying national transposition measures. We utilize both lexical and sema...

The wide range of applications for civilian UAVs, will open up a variety of markets for potential sales and economic growth. The Scientific Community could benefit in many ways from employing UAVs in the civilian sphere. Within the EC funded project TANGO “Telecommunications Advanced Networks for GMES Operations”, a three-year European Commission (EC) programme with the aim to develop, integrat...

Water is life and its preservation is not only a moral obligation but also a legal requirement. By 2030, global demands will exceed more than 40 % the existing resources and more than a third of the world's population will have to deal with water shortages (European Environmental Agency [EEA], 2010). Climate change effects on water resources will not help. Efforts are being made throughout Euro...

This document provides an opinion of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO Panel) of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on genetically modified maize MON 863 and the maize hybrid MON 863 x MON 810. The opinion is based on two questions raised by the Commission related to applications for the placing of the maize on the market by Monsanto under the Novel Food Regulat...

The European Regulation 2003/10/EC, voted by the European Parliament in 2003, is implemented in most of the countries of the European Community since 2006. This regulation defines different actions to be taken by the employer when the employees are submitted to continuous or impulse noise which exceeds the lower or upper exposure action value. It also defines maximum exposure levels to which em...