On 11th January 2012, an Estonian jury awarded the first prize in the Galileo drawing competition to 11-year-old Milena Kaznatsejeva. One of the satellites in the Galileo constellation will be named after Milena.

On 11th January 2012, an Estonian jury awarded the first prize in the Galileo drawing competition to 11-year-old Milena Kaznatsejeva. One of the satellites in the Galileo constellation will be named after Milena.

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry has announced the names of organisations that will implement important new European projects on business and human rights.

A consolidated list of references of harmonised standards under Directive 94/25/EC relating to recreational craft was published in the Official Journal C 1 on 4 January 2012 . The references of EN ISO 6185-4:2011 were published for the first time in the Official Journal.

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry has announced the names of organisations that will implement important new European projects on business and human rights.

A consolidated list of references of harmonised standards under Directive 94/25/EC relating to recreational craft was published in the Official Journal C 1 on 4 January 2012 . The references of EN ISO 6185-4:2011 were published for the first time in the Official Journal.

On 9th January 2012, a Slovenian jury awarded the first prize in the Galileo drawing competition to 10-year-old Tara Keber. One of the satellites in the Galileo constellation will be named after Tara.

On 9th January 2012, a Slovenian jury awarded the first prize in the Galileo drawing competition to 10-year-old Tara Keber. One of the satellites in the Galileo constellation will be named after Tara.

The proposed reform aims to thoroughly modernise the existing tools and instruments on public tendering. Access to public procurement for SMEs will be increased and made easier by cutting administrative burden. There will also be strong incentives to divide tenders into lots and limit the financial capacity requirements for [...]

Commissioner Barnier welcomes Parliament vote on reducing accounting red tape for more than 5 million small companies.

In October 2011 compared with September 2011, the euro area industrial new orders index rose by 1.8%, after a fall of 7.8% in September. In the EU27new orders increased by 0.5% in October 2011, after a fall of 2.1% in September.

The proposed reform aims to thoroughly modernise the existing tools and instruments on public tendering. Access to public procurement for SMEs will be increased and made easier by cutting administrative burden. There will also be strong incentives to divide tenders into lots and limit the financial capacity requirements for [...]

The World Trade Organisation's negotiations reached an agreement on an updated set of tender rules and additional market access commitments. According to WTO estimates, the revision will bring extra procurement opportunities worth around 100 billion Euro.

In October 2011 compared with September 2011, the euro area industrial new orders index rose by 1.8%, after a fall of 7.8% in September. In the EU27new orders increased by 0.5% in October 2011, after a fall of 2.1% in September.

In January, the Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) rose by 1.2 points in the EU and by 0.6 points in the euro area, to 92.8 and 93.4, respectively - the first pick-up in sentiment since March 2011.

Erasmus, the world's most successful student exchange programme, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Nearly three million students have benefited from a study period or work placement abroad since the creation of the Erasmus programme in 1987.

Today another step was taken in the implementation of the inclusion of aviation in the EU's emissions trading system (EU ETS): the European Commission has partially activated the new Union registry to enable access for aircraft operators.

A range of proposals to make trade and development instruments work hand-in-hand to ensure real poverty reduction across the world are presented by the European Commission today. The proposals aim at reinforcing the trade capacities of developing countries by making trade part of their development strategy.

The European Commission over the last years has taken a range of actions to enhance growth through the use of structural funds, to counter the crisis and ensure a quicker delivery of available funding.

Theft of American intellectual property is a serious crime, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced today that their vigorous, ongoing efforts to protect America from the trade in counterfeit and pirated goods during fiscal year 2011 resulted in 24,792 seizures, a 24 percent [...]