“I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile…. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, [...]

For those who watched Panorama (BBC 1) or Dispatches (Channel 4), both programmes dealing with the Coalition’s attempts to cut the welfare bill, it must have raised disturbing thoughts about how we treat those among us who are suffering from forms of illness that we would not wish on our worst enemy. While accepting that the [...]

Blog SummarySpanish government vs Spanish regions: Episode 98,640 (and counting)http://www.openeuropeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/spanish-government-vs-spanish-regions.html

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See also MEMO/12/609.

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Blog SummaryTrust in the EU at an all time lowhttp://www.openeuropeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/trust-in-in-eu-at-all-time-low.html

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This external report is not produced by EFSA. It is published here to help keep the public informed of developments related to EFSA’s scientific work. EFSA reserves its rights, view and position as regards the issues addressed and conclusions reached in the present document, without prejudice to the rights of the authors.

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31 July 2012

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is charged with coordinating the annual reporting of zoonoses, zoonotic agents, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and food-borne outbreaks in the European Union under the Directive 2003/99/EC as well as analysing and summarising the data collected. Until the year 2010, data on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animals and food were submitted by the reporting countries and analysed by EFSA on an aggregated level (i.e. as numbers of isolates resistant to a given antimicrobial substance out of the total number of isolates tested). However, data at bacterial isolate level enable more in-depth analysis of resistance, including multi-resistance patterns of isolates and description of clonal spreading of resistant strains. A pilot project for the collection of isolate based AMR data from volunteering reporting countries was carried out in 2011. Data were successfully collected from eleven Member States and one reporting country. This report focuses on the analysis of multi-resistance, co-resistance and complete susceptibility patterns in these isolate-based AMR data, containing information on Salmonella, Campylobacter, indicator E. coli and indicator enterococci isolates from food and animal samples for the year 2010. In addition, attention is paid to the study of the quantitative association between resistance to different antimicrobials in the dataset. Finally, several methods to identify possible clusters of similar multi-resistance patterns are described and exemplified based on selected subsets. Results are shown through specific summary tables as well as graphical representations.

Analysis of isolate based data on antimicrobial resistance collected from volunteer Member States for the year 2010

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This Order makes provision in relation to England and Wales in connection with elections and vacancies affecting the office of police and crime commissioner under Chapter 6 of Part 1 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13) (“the 2011 Act”). Section 75(2) of the 2011 Act provides that for each police area, other the metropolitan police district and the City of London police area, the head of paid service of the designated local authority is to be the “appropriate officer” on whom functions are conferred under Chapter 6 of Part 1.
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This Order makes provision in relation to elections in England and Wales of police and crime commissioners under Part 1 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13).
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These Regulations confer functions on police area returning officers and local returning officers at elections for a police and crime commissioner (“PCC elections”) in accordance with Chapter 6 of Part 1 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13) (“the 2011 Act”). The Regulations confer general functions that are in addition to specific functions conferred by order made under section 58 of the 2011 Act. The functions are also subject to any contrary provision in the arrangements under which another returning or counting officer will discharge certain functions in the event that the poll at a PCC election is taken together with the poll at another election or referendum.
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These Regulations amend the Police Regulations 2003 (“the 2003 Regulations”) by replacing the provisions about business interests held by police officers, candidates for appointment to police forces, and their relatives, and by inserting new provisions about biometric vetting of candidates.
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These Regulations amend the Special Constables Regulations 1965 by inserting provisions about the biometric vetting of candidates for appointment as special constables, about the testing of special constables, and candidates for substance misuse, and about the notification and approval of business interests held by special constables, candidates and their relatives. The inserted provisions are effectively identical to those applicable to regular police officers by virtue of the Police Regulations 2003. The relevant provisions of the Police Regulations 2003 are regulations 7 to 10, 19 and 19A.
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The Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29) (“the Act”) regulates, amongst other things, the processing of “sensitive personal data”, as defined in section 2. The first data protection principle, set out in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act, prohibits the processing of “sensitive personal data” unless one of the conditions in Schedule 3 to the Act is met. The condition in paragraph 10 of that Schedule is that the personal data are processed in circumstances specified in an order made by the Secretary of State. This Order specifies certain circumstances for the purposes of that paragraph.
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These Regulations prescribe the amount of a penalty which may be imposed by an appropriate authority by virtue of section 115C or 115D of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5) (“the Act”). The Secretary of State or an authority administering housing benefit or council tax benefit are both appropriate authorities for the purpose of these sections by virtue of section 115C(6) of the Act. That subsection also defines a “relevant social security benefit” for the purpose of these sections.
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This Order sets out and brings into operation an arbitration scheme intended for the resolution of a wide range of employment rights disputes. The Scheme was submitted to the Department for Employment and Learning by the Labour Relations Agency pursuant to Article 84A of the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 and Article 89 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.
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Under Article 84A(1)(b) of the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992, the Department for Employment and Learning is empowered to specify statutory provisions in respect of which the Labour Relations Agency may prepare an arbitration scheme for dealing with disputes which are or could become the subject of industrial tribunal proceedings.
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This Order revokes and remakes the Northern Ireland Poultry Health Assurance Scheme (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 2011. The Order makes provision for the Department to charge fees for activities required under Council Directive 2009/158/EC (on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from third countries, of poultry and hatching eggs). The activities and fees are listed in the Schedule.
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These Regulations amend the Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994 (“the 1994 Regulations”), which make provision for the transposition of Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (OJL206, 22.7.1992, p.7) (“the Habitats Directive”) and certain aspects of Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conservation of wild birds (OJL20, 26.1.2010, p.7) (“the Birds Directive”).
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Rio+20 Debriefing Session
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Rio+20 Debriefing Session
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In haemophilia A patients, replacement therapy with factor VIII products has become state of the art. However, a serious complication in the treatment of haemophilia A is the development of neutralizing antibodies against FVIII, causing therapy resistance and increased risk of bleeding.
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In haemophilia A patients, replacement therapy with factor VIII products has become state of the art. However, a serious complication in the treatment of haemophilia A is the development of neutralizing antibodies against FVIII, causing therapy resistance and increased risk of bleeding.
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This guideline describes the information to be included in the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) for human normal immunoglobulins for subcutaneous and/or intramuscular administration.
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This guideline describes the information to be included in the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) for human normal immunoglobulins for subcutaneous and/or intramuscular administration.
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The euro area (EA17) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 11.2% in June 2012, stable compared with May. It was 10.0% in June 2011. The EU27 unemployment rate was 10.4% in June 2012, also stable compared with May. It was 9.5% in June 2011.
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Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 2.4% in July 2012 according to a flash estimate issued by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. It was also 2.4% in June.
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Procurement: Contract Award Notice: Provision of Pre-Press and Printing Services (2012/S 145-241206).
Issue date: 31/07/2012.
Closing date: 31/10/2012.
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The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, helped the European Central Bank (ECB) to settle a public access case involving a letter the ECB sent to the Spanish government in August 2011. A Spanish lawyer asked for access to the letter because he wanted to know whether the ECB had suggested an amendment of the Spanish Constitution. When the ECB refused, he complained to the Ombudsman. After inspecting the letter, the Ombudsman agreed that the ECB should not have to disclose it to the public. However, with the consent of the ECB, he confirmed to the complainant that the letter did not suggest any amendments to the Spanish Constitution.

Refusal to give a Spanish lawyer access to an ECB letter to the
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Comment on There is no God, only evil politicians by Sue

I have some experience with such huge networked systems (also written by Indians) and if it makes you feel any better, the project took so long and was so over budget that the company I worked for just gave up on it.

http://parker-joseph.com/pjcjournal/2012/07/30/there-is-no-god-only-evil-politicians/#comment-3240

With GDP growth stagnating, the unemployment rate continuing its upward trend, and unresolved sovereign debt issues in many Member States, it is not easy to be optimistic about the prospects for EU labour markets. The best news tends to be of the ‘it could be worse’ variety. The second issue for 2012 highlights almost 73,000 job losses and over 47,000 jobs gains.
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Considerations on the opinion of the EU Court of Justice, which prohibits the sale and marketing of traditional vegetable seeds (“Prohibition against marketing seed of varieties that are not officially accepted and registered in a catalogue of varieties”).
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LMO conference: “Labour market reforms in response to the crisis” with the participation of President Nilsson
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The EESC delegation will participate in the WTO Public Forum.
President Nilsson will meet Mr Lamy, Director-General of the WTO
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President Staffan Nilsson will take part in Planetworkshops’ Global Conference 7th edition
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