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Legally eHealth: Putting eHealth in its European Legal Context. Legal and regulatory aspects of eHealth Study report March 2008. “The Legally eHealth Report…seeks to examine some keys of the legal questions raised by the adoption of eHealth tools in healthcare. It looks at how EU legislation on data protection, product and services liability, and trade …
EPA Launches the Environmental Indicators Gateway: “This gateway features information on EPA’s environmental indicator projects. These projects provide information on environmental conditions and trends over a range of geographic scales and time periods. The Gateway provides summaries of the indicator projects and links to the related reports and Web sites developed by each project. You …
Latest Findings on National Air Quality – Status and Trends Through 2006. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Air Quality Assessment Division, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, EPA-454/R-07-007, January 2008. “The “Air Trends Online” project provides information on air pollution trends in the United States. The effort was launched in 1972 …
News release: “Global EntryTM will be available for U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents who are frequent international travelers, provided they have not been found guilty of a criminal offense, charged with a customs or immigration offense, or declared inadmissible to the U.S. under immigration legislation. Biometric fingerprint technology will be used to verify the …
Rising food prices: Policy options and World Bank response [Word doc]: “The rising trend in international food prices continued, and even accelerated, in 2008. U.S. wheat export prices rose from $375/ton in January to $440/ton in March, and Thai rice export prices increased from $365/ton to $562/ton. This came on top of a 181 percent …
News release: “The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) [April 10, 2008] issued China: Description of Selected Government Practices and Policies Affecting Decision Making in the Economy [270 pages, PDF]. The ITC, an independent, nonpartisan, factfinding federal agency, prepared the report at the request of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means. As …
News release: “Corporations, industries, labor unions, governments and other interests spent a record $2.79 billion in 2007 to lobby for favorable policies in Washington, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics has calculated. This represents an increase of 7.7 percent, or $200 million, over spending in 2006. And for every day Congress was in session, industries …
“Senior financial supervisors from five countries (collectively the Senior Supervisors Group) today issued a report that reviews the disclosure practices of financial services firms concerning their exposures to certain financial instruments that the marketplace now considers to be high-risk. This report, Leading-Practice Disclosures for Selected Exposures, provides examples of current leading practices in the reporting …
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Report No. D-2008-048 Procuring Noncompetitive Spare Parts Through an Exclusive Distributor, February 6, 2008.
Media Ownership: Economic Factors Influence the Number of Media Outlets in Local Markets, While Ownership by Minorities and Women Appears Limited and Is Difficult to Assess, GAO-08-383, March 12, 2008 Millennium Challenge Corporation: Analysis of Compact Development and Future Obligations and Current Disbursements of Compact Assistance, GAO-08-577R, April 11, 2008 Defense Acquisitions: 2009 Review of …
OIG-08-38 – Aillison of the M/V COSCO BUSAN with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, April 2008 (PDF, 56 pages): “Response to an oil spill is a multifaceted and multilayered effort requiring both an autonomous and cooperative response on the part of each stakeholder. This mishap highlighted the need for federal, state, and local agencies to …
