Stopping the Clock for aviation under the EU-ETS not longer than one year!
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Peter Liese: Balanced proposal by the Commission, but things have to be clarified
Today, Dr. Peter Liese (EPP), the European Parliament's rapporteur on the European Commission's so called Stopping the Clock proposal presented his draft report which now goes into the parliamentary procedure. "In principle I welcome the Commission proposal and recommend a quick adoption, but some points need to be clarified", Liese stated.
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No EU-Funding on Research with Embryos and Embryonic Stem Cells
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Strasbourg - Today MEPs from different political groups and different countries asked not to finance research with embryos and embryonic stem cells under the new EU-research framework program Horizon 2020. Within the next weeks the different committees of the European Parliament will vote on the Commissions proposal.
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Balanced proposal for tobacco directive
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Important improvement but exaggerated ideas have not been included
"The proposal for a tobacco product directive presented by Commissioner Tonio Borg today is balanced. It foresees important improvement for health but exaggerated ideas have not been included", said Peter Liese and Richard Seeber, the co-coordinators of the EPP Group for environment and health. "Commissioner Tonio Borg has kept his word. He tabled the new draft directive even sooner than announced in the hearing. This is important for the credibility of the EU Institutions and also important because it enables us to have a comprehensive debate and a full procedure including a vote in plenary before the European election".
Transplantation Medicine: European Parliament in favour of unpaid donation
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Peter Liese: Medical urgency rather than financial aspects have to decide about donation / Violation of basic ethical principles undermines trust and harms the patients
Strasbourg - With a vast majority, the European Parliament today demanded to bindingly establish the principle of unpaid donation. In today's voting, the delegates primarily focused on cell and tissue transplantations because the laws in this field are less strict than for organ transplantations. The EU institutions had already established the principal of unpaid and voluntary organ donation as well as a legally explicit prohibition of organ trade in a directive in 2010.
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