Starting with October 1, 2013, all legal persons and individuals in France who organise or sell transport services, irrespective of the transport mode or the size of the company, will have to post CO2 emissions for each transport service. The decision was made on April 10 and published in the Official Journal on April 18. [...]
Directive 2003/96/EC on energy taxation regulates a series of energy taxation aspects in order to influence the consumers’ behaviour towards a more efficient consumption of energy and of environmentally friendly resources. Starting with 2003, since the adoption of this directive, concrete and ambitious objectives have been defined in the energy and climate change area. These [...]
Vice-President Siim Kallas, Commissioner for mobility and transport, announced the winners of the first Smart Mobility Challenge on European multi-modal journey planners. In the category of “operational journey planners” the two winners are Idos and Trenitalia, and in the category of “innovative ideas” the winners are Penelope Ventures GmbH, for its idea of Byebyehello journey [...]
The Italian city of Bologna has won the 2011 European Mobility Week Award on its tenth anniversary and the runners-up were Larnaka in Cyprus and the Croatian capital Zagreb.The 2011 campaign theme – “Alternative Mobility” – set out to support the transition towards a resource-efficient transport system by promoting clean, fuel-efficient or human-powered modes of [...]
The “Danube Forum” of the European Parliament (EP) has analysed the needs and the opportunities for developing the energy infrastructure, the energy efficiency measures, the renewable energy use potential in the Danube region, as well as the main actions undertaken and the projects advanced by the countries situated along the Danube in the priority action [...]
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