The European Commission has published a Handbook entitled "Buying Green" which explains in clear non-legal terms how to include environmental criteria in the different stages of a public procurement procedure.
After briefly summarizing the substance of a European Commission workshop on gender & security, data from sub-Saharan Africa are presented to examine the relationship between gender inequality & security issues. Ten threats to human security where women are at a greater disadvantage than men are outlined: economic, food, health, education, employment, environmental, personal, minority community, political & legal, & cultural insecurities. Disparities were found to be worse in war-torn countries, & it is argued that postwar planning must account for the systems of subordination underlying womens inequality, particularly as they can be disrupted by conflict leading to positive, if fragile, gender shifts for women. References. D. Edelman
AbstractIn the academic debate on the relative powers and influence of the EU institutions, it has become common to suggest – especially in the case of advocates of the 'new intergovernmentalism' – that the European Commission is in decline. In this article we show that while in some limited respects this is indeed the case, the Commission's overall position in the EU system is not one of having become a weaker institutional actor. The extent of the losses of its powers and influence tends to be exaggerated, while in some aspects its powers and influence have actually been strengthened. We show this by focusing on three of the Commission's core functions – agenda‐setter, legislative actor and executive – all of which are widely portrayed as being in decline. We incorporate into our analysis both the formal and informal resources available to the Commission in exercising the functions.
In: CORDIS focus newsletter: publ. by the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities as part of of the European Community's Sixth Research Framework Programme and presents the latest news on European Union research and innovation and related programmes and policies. [Englische Ausgabe], Heft 281, S. 9-10
This intervention analyses the new arrangements for the sale of live television rights to FA Premier League (FAPL) games. The new procedures have been produced as a result of ongoing discussions between the FAPL and the European Commission. To ensure compliance with European Union competition legislation, the Premier League has accepted the Commission's calls for an end to its exclusive distribution of live broadcast rights, bringing to an end BSkyB's 15-year monopoly of its main subscription driver (Buck and Terazono, 2005). Here, we examine the aims of the European Commission in pursuing the FAPL's exclusive deal with BSkyB (Sky) and consider whether the deal that has been brokered provides any tangible benefits to the consumer.