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EU

Publication of Postal Directive marks start date for real market opening

28th Feb 2008

The Third Postal Directive is published today in the Official Journal, the EU reports.

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EU Directives Podcast

21st Feb 2008

In this podcast, Neville Hobson interviews Simon Emeny, Product Conformity Manager at Lloyds Register Quality Assurance (LRQA).
Neville asks how EU directives affect people and their daily lives — both personal and business. Simon also talks about the CE mark, and the role of quality certification and verification.

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New boost for internal market on goods

21st Feb 2008

The European Commission welcomes today’s adoption by the European Parliament of a broad package of measures to facilitate the functioning of the internal market for goods, e-Gov monitor reports.

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MEP’s clarify CE Markings and import rules

21st Feb 2008

Parliament has adopted at first reading a key legislative package on the internal market in goods.

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How do Global FT500 calculate & verify their GHG emissions?

11th Feb 2008

Ethical Corporation have just launched a business intelligence report on how the Global FT500 are calculating and verifying their greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Green Supply Chain Summit

Event: 24th Jun 2008 – 25th Jun 2008

Taking you from step one to step ten to achieve a green supply chain

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EU Launches ‘Clean Sky’ Green Aircraft Initiative

7th Feb 2008 by Sarah Whitworth

The Clean Sky joint technology initiative was launched in Europe.
The JTI, a EUR 1.6 billion public-private partnership, aims to make aircraft cleaner and more efficient. It will select technologies for development between 2008 and 2010, leading to full-scale demonstrations between 2013 and 2014.

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What is Product Conformity?

2nd Feb 2008 by Simon Emeny

Product Conformity – The assurance that the totality of a firm’s output satisfies accepted standards. For many, product conformity involves conferring a brand mark to the approved activity.

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National Healthcare Congress

Event: 2nd Mar 2008 – 4th Mar 2008

Country: United States of America
City: Florida
Event website: National Healthcare Congress
The healthcare sector in the US is continuing to grow at astonishing speed. With the advent of new technologies and new procedures, running a healthcare facility today has become extremely complex.
The National Healthcare Congress aims to shed some light on the issues facing healthcare facilities, […]

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Climate Change

The Climate Change section is your one stop shop for news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other climate change resources.

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Supply Chain

The Supply Chain Assurance section covers news, blogs, podcasts, standards, events and resources on supply chain issues.

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Food

The Food section focuses on issues of food safety and the food supply chain, and provides news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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CSR

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) section focuses on current CSR issues which face all companies all over the world. This information is provided to you via six sections: news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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Product Conformity

The Product Conformity section contains news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and resources covering Product Conformity and other European Union related issues.

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Carbon Labelling

The Carbon Labelling section was launched in sync with the Check-out Carbon report, June 2008. The section contains information on news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other carbon labelling resources.

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