Transparent: mining and logging sectors
12/06/2013
Large oil, gas, diamond and logging companies will now be obliged to disclose full information about every single project whose payments to the governmental authorities exceed the threshold of 100.000 Euros, following the...
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ALDE secures mandatory rotation for audit firms
25/04/2013
Thanks to crucial ALDE backing, the need to establish time limits on the contractual relationship between auditors and their clients was approved today by MEPs on the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parliament by a...
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Mandatory rotation of audit firms is essential to ensure their independence
24/04/2013
Ahead of tomorrow's key vote in Parliament's Legal Affairs committee on rules for improving the quality and independence in the auditing of major companies (especially banks), Liberals and Democrats underline the need to...
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ALDE MEPs pave the way for more transparency in the extracting business and less accounting burden for SME's
09/04/2013
Large oil, gas, diamond and logging companies will be obliged to disclose full information about every single project whose payments to the governmental authorities exceed the threshold of 100.000 Euros. And administrative...
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Companies, not legislators, should deal with CSR policies
06/02/2013
The group of Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament (ALDE) supports and encourages companies in undertaking actions in the framework of corporate social responsibility and believes that such measures should, in...
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Long expected agreement on patents boosts innovative SMEs in the EU
11/12/2012
After four decades of negotiations and deadlocks, the European Parliament has adopted today a legislative package which sets up a unitary patent valid throughout the EU.
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MEPs back more transparency and less bureaucracy for SMEs
18/09/2012
The Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament today adopted two reports updating EU legislation on transparency and accounting. The new rules will both set new standards for the cooperation with developing countries and...
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Austrian MEP Angelika Werthmann joins the ALDE group
04/07/2012
The ALDE group welcomes a new member: Austrian independent MEP Angelika WERTHMANN joins the group.
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EU single patent court to have three seats
27/06/2012
Commenting on news that this week's summit will be asked to endorse a deal to split the new EU patent court between London, Munich and Paris, Guy Verhofstadt (ALDE group leader) commented:
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Parliament insists that press freedom is protected against cross border libel cases
10/05/2012
Today the European Parliament adopted a report by Cecilia Wikström, (Folkpartiet, Sweden) which aims to clarify which national laws apply in the case of a newspaper, television or radio station being sued for libel by someone in...
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