Industry representatives at the High Level Forum for a Better Functioning Food Supply Chain raised concerns about taxes levied or envisaged on food and drink products by several Member States in recent years. No conclusive analysis of the effect of food taxes on competitiveness of the agri-food...

For on-board diagnostics (OBD) requirements in the Euro 6 Light Duty vehicle legislation, the detection of emission reduction system failures against the particulate OBD threshold limits (OTL) is of major importance. The OBD thresholds set out in Commission Regulation (EC) 692/2008 and amended...

The Ecodesign Directive (Directive 2009/125/EC) establishes a framework for the setting of Community Ecodesign requirements for energy-related products with the aim of ensuring the free movement of such products within the internal market. This preparatory study is carried out in the framework...

The deployment of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS, actually an old 20th century technology) entails many benefits for European manufacturing and operating industries and citizens. The technology of RPAS applied to civil applications - commercial, noncommercial and governmental...

The use of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) is rapidly expanding for a range of civil and commercial purposes. However, it is already apparent that existing RPAS capabilities and applications raise a number of privacy, data protection and ethical issues, some of which are recognised in...

The Firearms Directive (i.e. Directive 91/477/EEC as amended by Directive 2008/51/EC) aims at balancing internal market objectives (i.e. cross border movement of firearms) and security policy objectives (i.e. high level of security and protection against criminal acts and illicit trafficking)...

This report sets out the findings and recommendations of an evaluation of European cluster initiatives (ECI) managed by the European Commission, Directorate-General Enterprise and Industry (DG ENTR), unit D5 - Clusters and Support for SMEs. The evaluation was conducted between December 2013 and...

The main scope of the study "Methodology, work plan and roadmap for cross-cutting KETs activities in Horizon 2020", briefly called RO-cKETs, has been to produce a shared methodology and a proposal for a cross-cutting KETs roadmap and work plan for the European Commission, which will provide...