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Internal market committee calls for compulsory labelling for textiles

Brussels, 12/04/2010 (Agence Europe) - Consumers should be provided with accurate, intelligible and comparable information on the characteristics of the textile products they buy. For this, a new EU harmonised labelling system may be needed. In addition, the country of origin should be indicated on label. These are the main points to be drawn after the European Parliament's internal market committee (IMCO) adopted the report by Toine Manders (ALDE, Netherlands) on the draft proposal for a...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Economic governance in Guy Verhofstadt's sights
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/POLAND: EU expresses condolences and sends support to Poland after tragic death of President Lech Kaczyñski
(EU) EU/HUNGARY:
(EU) EU/EPP/UNITED KINGDOM:
(EU) EU/EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Committee on budgets criticises budgetary structure proposed for European External Action Service
(EU) EU/EUROMED: Spain and two co-presidencies of Union for Mediterranean prepare "political initiative" to save June Barcelona "Summit"
(EU) EU/KENYA: EU calls on Kenya to cooperate with ICC
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Commission launches public debate on future of Common Agricultural Policy - Dacian Cioloº defends keeping instruments for crisis prevention
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE: George Lyon calls for “coherent and credible” post-2013 common agricultural policy
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: agreement on finalising aid plan for Greece
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Socialists, unions and anti-globalisation organisations push for “Robin Hood” tax
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Decisions by future supervisory authorities must apply directly to financial entities, says Michel Barnier
(EU) EU/JHA: Washington to tax formalities for entering USA
(EU) EU/JHA:
(EU) EU/EDUCATION: To get out of crisis, education must be at heart of priorities, Spanish Presidency says ahead of informal meeting in Madrid
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: Commission wants to put media spotlight on poverty in Europe
(EU) EU/EUROMED: Euro-Mediterranean audio-visual circles call for common TV channel
(EU) EU/UN CLIMATE: Bonn talks result in work programme
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Birdlife International condemns opening of new spring hunting season in Malta
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EP/INDUSTRY: Internal market committee calls for compulsory labelling for textiles
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Spanish Presidency wants to use science to tackle poverty
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Agenda for next TEC still to be decided
(EU) EU/EIB: Bank ready to back projects in Kazakhstan
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main acts published in Official Journal of EU
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
(EU) World Trade:
(EU) Banks:
(EU) Disasters:
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: No. 866
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