scholarly journals Development of the Tourist Services at European level based on the Public Food Indicators

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ioana Cristina FLORESCU ◽  
Silvia Elena CRISTACHE ◽  
Daniela Șerban ◽  
Andrei BĂDIN
Keyword(s):  
European Level ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Employees’ Longer Working Lives in Europe: Drivers and Barriers in Companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1658
Author(s):  
Andrea Principi ◽  
Jürgen Bauknecht ◽  
Mirko Di Rosa ◽  
Marco Socci
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
European Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Market Factors ◽  
Legal Retirement Age

This paper identifies, within companies’ sectors of activity, predictors of Human Resource (HR) policies to extend working life (EWL) in light of increasing policy efforts at the European level to extend working life. Three types of EWL practices are investigated: the prevention of early retirement (i.e., encouraging employees to continue working until the legal retirement age); delay of retirement (i.e., encouraging employees to continue working beyond the legal retirement age); and, recruitment of employees who are already retired (i.e., unretirement). A sample of 4624 European organizations that was stratified by size and sector is analyzed in six countries. The main drivers for companies’ EWL practices are the implementation of measures for older workers to improve their performance, their working conditions, and to reduce costs. In industry, the qualities and skills of older workers could be more valued than in other sectors, while the adoption of EWL practices might be less affected by external economic and labor market factors in the public sector. Dutch and Italian employers may be less prone than others to extend working lives. These results underline the importance of raising employers’ awareness and increase their actions to extend employees’ working lives by adopting age management initiatives, especially in SMEs, and in the services and public sectors.

scholarly journals Collaboration matters: capacity building, up-scaling, spreading, and sustainability in citizen-generated data projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Balestrini ◽  
Alexander Kotsev ◽  
Marisa Ponti ◽  
Sven Schade
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Invasive Alien Species ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
European Level ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technical Systems ◽  
Matters Of Concern ◽  
Up Scaling

AbstractProjects producing citizen-generating data (CGD) to provide evidence and to drive change have increased considerably in the last decade. Many of these initiatives build on multi-actor collaboration and are often supported by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the public sector, businesses or community-based organisations. The joint efforts of these actors are often necessary to provide the resources and the support that citizens need to produce data. In return, organisations can harness the data to support their objectives. The recent growth (or up-scaling) of CGD projects has created opportunities, as well as challenges for capacity building and sustainability. These challenges can affect the continuity and effectiveness of these initiatives and, in turn, the quality and utility of collected data. This paper analyses two CGD projects to consider their social implications and the measures necessary to increase their capacity, up-scaling, spreading, and sustainability. The case studies on noise monitoring and invasive alien species describe, respectively, a bottom-up approach at city level and a top-down approach at the European level. Regardless of the approach, capacity building requires a process of infrastructuring that engages different actors, responds to matters of concern, assesses community capacities and needs, and develops a vision and action plan. Further, the appropriation and repurposing of technical systems is required to scale up and spread CGD projects. In this process, participants’ activities are shaped by technologies, while the meaning and effects of technologies are shaped through participants’ activities.

scholarly journals Best practices in the field of specific risk evaluation of pyrotechnic entertainment articles subject to legal and illegal market surveillance

2022 ◽  
Vol 354 ◽  
pp. 00031
Author(s):  
Bogdan Garaliu-Busoi ◽  
Daniela Carmen Rus ◽  
Claudia Miron ◽  
Olga Miclea ◽  
Dan Pintilie
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Risk Evaluation ◽  
National Level ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
European Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Safety Requirements ◽  
Market Surveillance ◽  
Legal Market ◽  
Scientific Expertise

The field of pyrotechnic articles is very popular and developed, and as a result, the influx of pyrotechnic articles on the market is abundant. However, it should be noted that in addition to compliant products, which meet the applicable essential safety requirements covered by Directive no. 2013/29 / EU, there are also products on the market that can present a significant level of danger when used, handled, transported or stored. Market surveillance authorities frequently find non-compliant products such as pyrotechnic articles offered to the public, some on the legal market, others traded illegally. The establishment of presumptive risks related to pyrotechnic articles can be achieved by applying documented and accredited procedures at national and European level by specialized laboratories, one of these being found within INSEMEX. Technical-scientific expertise activity aims to verify the level of security for products considered suspicious. We have an international collaboration with European authorities, and at the national level, requests for products such as pyrotechnic articles are sent for expertise by the police, the prosecutor’s office or the courts. It was found that most products considered “suspicious” had serious deficiencies that could lead to major risks, and those traded illegally lead to considerable economic losses.

scholarly journals Europeanisation and German Public Administration

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Hans Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
National Level ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Level ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Public ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Legal Remedy ◽  
Administrative Procedures ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThis chapter discusses how public administration in Germany is influenced by the making and implementation of law by the organs of the European Union (EU). Although the public administrations of the EU Member States are, in principle, responsible for enforcing the laws made by the EU, the EU’s influence on the public administration of Germany as EU Member State is constantly growing. This is true, not only of those areas in which the Member States have transferred to the EU the authority to make laws, but increasingly also of those areas in which the Member States have retained such authority. At the same time, however, there is no systematic codification of the law on administrative procedures at European level and no system of legal remedy for Union citizens equivalent to those at national level.

scholarly journals USE OF "THE LOWEST PRICE" AWARD CRITERION IN THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN ROMANIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-46
Author(s):  
Ionel PREDA ◽  
◽  
Cezar-Petre SIMION ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Procurement ◽  
European Level ◽  
Social Efficiency ◽  
The Public ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Price Award ◽  
Procurement System

Taking into account the very large sums being spent through the Romanian public procurement system (approximately 8% of the GDP), analysing the award criteria used in the procurement procedures is an important element that influences the achievement of the economic and social efficiency of procurement. The article describes the criteria for public procurement award in Romania, focusing on the most used criterion, namely the lowest price. It also presents the advantages and disadvantages of using this criterion, statistical situations at national and European level, the difficulties encountered in using this criterion by contracting authorities and the vulnerabilities of tenderers participating in the procurement procedures which use for the award the criterion under consideration.

Analisi degli effetti a livello aziendale e territoriale della nuova politica agricola comunitaria: il caso della Toscana

2012 ◽  
pp. 249-271
Author(s):  
Gabriele Scozzafava ◽  
Leonardo Casini
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
European Level ◽  
Cognitive Analysis ◽  
Strategic Information ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
The Public ◽  
Potential Problems

The objectives to which Common Agricultural Policy (cap) was intended have been deeply changed in the last fifty years. Today, the debate at national and European level is amplified in relation to the need to reshape agricultural policy after 2013. The awareness of the failure of the decoupled aid as well as it was conceived, focuses on the effects that a change of this intervention tool could generate both at farm and territorial scale. This study emphasizes these issues by proposing a cognitive analysis considering and studying the financial flows within the first pillar received by each farm in Tuscany. The first objective of this research is to analyze the current situation of the decoupled aid in order to highlight potential problems at farm or territorial scale. The second objective of this proposal is to simulate different scenarios to examine the effects of regionalization of the aid. As a matter of fact, on an even programming stage it is very important to provide strategic information to the public decisionmaker who must negotiate at political phase the final choices between the various proposals.

scholarly journals What do patients know? Education from the European Lung Foundation perspective

Breathe ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pippa Powell ◽  
Dan Smyth ◽  
Isabel Saraiva ◽  
Karin Lisspers ◽  
Georgia Hardavella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
List Type ◽  
European Level ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
European Respiratory Society ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Of Patients ◽  
Lung Health

The European Lung Foundation (ELF) is an organisation whose mission is to bring together the public and patients with respiratory professionals to improve lung health. A core part of all its activities focus on education: the education of patients on their condition, including how to prevent, treat and manage it; the education of healthcare professionals on how to improve work with patients and awareness about the issues that are important to patients; and education of the public and policy makers of the importance of lung health at a European level. ELF was founded and works in a unique partnership with the European Respiratory Society (ERS).This article has been written by the recent past Chairs and the new Chairs of three ELF committees (Council (D. Smyth and I. Saraiva), Professional Advisory Committee (K. Lisspers and G. Hardavella) and Patient Advisory Committee (J. Fuertes and K. Hill)) in order to reflect on ELF’s journey in this regard over recent years. In particular, it seems a good moment to assess the success and impact of the first patient Chair of ELF, Dan Smyth, and reflect on what this has meant for ELF’s educational activities, and what the future now looks like.Educational aimsTo understand the importance of educated patients (patients that are knowledgeable on their condition and how healthcare processes work).To understand the importance of guiding patients to quality reliable sources of information and education.To establish ways to ensure that healthcare professionals are prepared to work with educated patients.To outline the initiatives that ELF has driven forward in the field of education.To see the value in patients advocating at the European level for raising standards of education for patients and physicians.

scholarly journals Estimating the Public Health Impact of Setting Targets at the European Level for the Reduction of Zoonotic Salmonella in Certain Poultry Populations

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 4836-4850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winy Messens ◽  
Luis Vivas-Alegre ◽  
Saghir Bashir ◽  
Giusi Amore ◽  
Pablo Romero-Barrios ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Public Health Impact ◽  
European Level ◽  
The Public

Communication in the European Elections: The Case of British Broadcasting

1979 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay G. Blumler
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
The Political ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
European Level ◽  
European Elections ◽  
The Public ◽  
Universal Suffrage ◽  
Mass Publics ◽  
Direct Elections

THE POLITICAL GAINS EXPECTED FROM HOLDING DIRECT ELECtions to the European Parliament were bound to depend on the nature and extent of mass communication. Information flows released during the campaign in the various Community countries, and how they were received by electoral audiences, would determine, for example, whether: European awareness would spread beyond the confines of cosmopolitan élites into the ranks of mass publics; the legitimacy of the Euro ean Parliament would be strengthened by enhancing its visibility, intelligibility and relevance in the eyes of European citizens; and whether the seeds of a European-level body of public opinion would begin to sprout and flourish. As Emdio Colombo once put it, ‘The elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage provide an opportunity of bringing the debate on Europe into the public forum and of enlisting the active support of the man in the street for the construction of Europe.’

scholarly journals Corruption: Profile of political companies in Romania

2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (s1) ◽  
pp. 65-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Pirvu
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
European Level ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Procurement Contracts ◽  
Public Contract

The subject of the paper is related to the tainting of the public contract award process and the consequences generated by it: corruption in public procurement, which is a major problem of the Romanian economy, recognised and pointed out both at the national and at the European level. The study provides empirical evidence that between 2009–2013 there were many companies that repeatedly win public procurement contracts and do business only (or almost only) with the local and central authorities (contracting authorities who represent the interests of political parties). At the theoretical level, the profile of these companies, called political companies, is identified.

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