Facilitating transnational low season tourism exchanges in Europe encouraging Senior Citizens to travel

The general objective of this call for proposals is to facilitate transnational tourism flows of seniors within Europe in the low season with a view to:

1.   Foster the demand and supply of transnational tourism for seniors;

2.   Improve tourism seasonality patterns across Europe, by contributing to the extention of the tourism 
season;

3.   Create innovative tourism packages for seniors, which will be available and sustainable after the EU 
co-financed period;

4.   Set up and strenghten sustainable public-private European partnerships, to contribute creating a 
European tourism domestic market for seniors in the long term.

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/call_CIP?callIdentifier=75-G-ENT-CIP-13-B-N03S01&specificProgram=EIP

The European Union provides support to Small and Medium Enterprises

CHINA IPR SME HELPDESK

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

73/G/ENT/CIP/13/B/N02C02

The European Union provides support to Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in cases of market failures.

The justification for support in the field of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is based on the importance of these rights for the international competitiveness of EU businesses, the low ability of small and medium businesses to adequately manage IPR due to limited resources and knowledge to effectively deal with IPR and the additional challenge imposed by the international dimension.

This call aims to provide support services to assist EU SMEs to both protect and enforce their intellectual property rights in or relating to China. The target audience is both European SMEs in the EU and those already present in or investing in or otherwise doing business in China.

Mergers: Commission clears the creation of a joint e-commerce venture between Telefónica, CaixaBank and Banco Santander

Regulation the creation of a joint venture between the Spanish telecommunications operator Telefónica and two Spanish banks, CaixaBank, controlled by La Caixa–Caja de Ahorros, and Banco Santander. The joint venture will develop a virtual community for merchants and consumers in Spain providing services to its members, such as digital advertising and data analytics services to merchants, as well as digital wallet services, with peer-to-peer payment functionality to consumers.

European Commission - Pressrelease

NOTICE TO READERS - electronic publication of the Official Journal of the European Union

Council Regulation (EU) No 216/2013 of 7 March 2013 on the electronic publication of the Official Journal of the European Union

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During a transitional period this new practice will coexist with the previous one.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:217:s003:s003:EN:PDF

Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications

Vacancy for an Administrative Manager (Grade AD 14) of the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications — BEREC Office (Riga, Latvia) BEREC/2013/02

The Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) is set up to provide administrative and professional support to the BEREC, the new Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications.

BEREC is composed of a Board of Regulators consisting of the Heads of the 28 national regulatory authori­ties (NRAs). BEREC advises the European Commission and the NRAs and assists the European Parliament and Council on issues related to the application of the EU regulatory framework for electronic communica­tions. BEREC in particular helps to ensure fair competition and consistency of regulation in the internal market for electronic communications by providing expert advice on market definitions, analysis and reme­dies, definition of trans-national markets, cross-border disputes and numbering issues.

http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/berec_office/publication_of_notices/?doc=137