8 Current news from the ressort politics
rss09-16-2011
Photonics21 has announced its commitment to a proposed Public Private Partnership (PPP) with the European Commission in research and innovation in photonics. The proposal represents a total investment of 7 Billion Euros of which 5.6 Billion will be provided by the private sector and 1.4 ...
08-18-2010
The Chemistry Industry Association of Canada supports the results of Health Canada's Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals. Biomonitoring studies such as this are useful tools for obtaining exposure information, which can be combined with other scientific approaches to advance ...
Asking the government to implement a stimulus plan for young, innovative companies
02-10-2009
France Biotech has reported a major drop in equity investments in French biotech companies: funding fell by 79% in 2008, relative to 2007 (€143 million in 2008 versus €694 million in 2007). Investment in listed companies collapsed (only €12 million in 2008 - a fall of 98%). Venture capital ...
NGO‘s take over work that should be done by the authorities
09-19-2008
In June 2007, the new EU policy on chemicals, REACH, entered into force. Over the next decade thousands of chemicals manufactured or imported into the EU will have to be registered with the newly established European Chemicals Agency, ECHA. One of the main parts of REACH is the authorisation ...
02-19-2008
EuropaBio, the European Association for Bio-Industries, welcomes the conclusions from the STACCATO workshop on Bio-Preparedness. Approximately 100 experts in the field of bio-safety and bio-security met with the European Commission DG Health and Consumer Protection and DG Justice, Freedom and ...
11-27-2007
Policy-makers, scientists and industrialists came together in Braga, Portugal to discuss the future of nanotechnology research in Europe. According to the European Commission, this comes at a positive time for European nanotechnology, with the public-private research partnerships for ...
12-12-2006
Reference laboratories are of key importance for consumer health protection. Together with the public agencies of the federal states, they elaborate the standards for the work of the test laboratories involved in food monitoring. Reference laboratories act as an arbitrator when it comes to ...
03-24-2005
This morning's EU Commission orientation debate on GMOs confirms that this Commission will build on the previous Commission's policy by supporting Europe's regulatory and approval process for GM products. "More than a year since the last orientation debate, it is encouraging to see that ...
