News from Efca (Efca Bulletin 2011/4 of October 2011)

 

On its Internet site Efca (European Federation of Engineering Consultancy Associations) has published the 2011/4 number of its Bulletin containing information about Federation's activities and relavant European Union news interesting for consulting engineering companies.
Efca documentation on the following topics is available at http://www.efcanet.org/menuBoven/Publications/EFCA_Bulletin.aspx

Efca Bulletin 2011/4

FEDERATION NEWS

- MEPs recognise engineering consultant's role as independent expert advisor in project delivery p1
- EFCA emphasises need to reform EU public procurement legislation p2
- Internal Market Committee: change of name in line with enlarged remit p2
- Industrial Market Task Force keen to develop initiatives p3
- EFCA convincingly conveys the industry's views on proposed changes to contract procedures in
EU External Actions p3
- EFCA Board welcomed FIDIC President Gregs Thomopulos at its September meeting p4
- 2012 EFCA YP competition for engineering excellence launched p4
- EFCA agenda p5
- EFCA publishes ‘Taking hold of our future - A briefing paper for the engineering consultancy industry' p5

INTERNAL MARKET p6
- Internal Market Scoreboard: transposition deficit increases to 1.2%

EU FUNDS & PROGRAMMES p6
- Maximum and optimal use of EU funds for the countries mostly hit after the crisis
- European Energy Efficiency Fund launched
- 2010 EU development policy and external assistance
- E-learning course on the Practical Guide (PRAG) to contract procedures for EC External Actions
- EU Donor Atlas 2011
- EU earmarks €5.5 billion for reforms in the Western Balkans, Turkey and Iceland
- €19.1 million for institutional reforms in Armenia
- Five economic recovery and reconciliation programmes for Ivory Coast
- €78.6 million for energy and justice reform in the Republic of Moldova
- European financial assistance to Tunisia
- €30 million support for institutional reforms in Ukraine

MISCELLANEOUS p9
- New energy efficiency Directive proposed
- Construction output up by 1.4% in euro area and by 0.3% in the EU27
- Report charts Europe's eco-innovation challenge
- Proposal to ease the recovery of cross-border debts
- Using models for air quality assessment and planning: a guide
- Enterprise Europe Network reinforced in Asia and extended to North Africa

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