On Monday 8 December 12-2pm there is a lobby outside the Legal Commission Service (LCS) headquarters in Victoria, London. This has been called by my Voluntary sector trade unions colleagues in UNITE. The LCS is accused of cutting the funding arrangements for independent legal advice services such...

Thanks to the Federal Trade Commission, in the spirit of protecting you, the consumer, from fraud - I must now disclose anyone who provides material condition to me, as a blogger, in order to give my endorsement of any product. The new regulation on social media requires me, as a blogger, to disclose my endorsements, including payments for an endorsement of a product, or free products. Needless to...

The institutionally corrupt (no accounts for 13 years) EU Commission has given permission for the import of GM soya products by the same firm that is being investigated for killing off most of Europe's bees, with another of its modified products, the pesticide Clothianidin.

The European Commission sees no need for major changes to EU legislation affecting social services, despite pressure from politicians and social NGOs who claim that current rules cause problems for public authorities and service providers.

Despite Gordon's claims to the contrary, nobody seems to believe him that Britain is "best placed to weather the global financial turbulence", not the currency markets, not foreign investors and nor now the European Commission. The FT reports that the Commission is forecasting EU growth will slow from 1.4% cent this year to just 0.2% in 2009, while the eurozone economy would expand by 1.2% this ye...

With practically every media company active on-line, the Communication from the Commission on the application of state aid rules to public service broadcasting (4 November 2008) is going to be read closely. In addition, the European Commission wants to incorporate its own decisions and relevant European Court decisions into its coming guideline in order to add legal certainty to complex questions,...

today the Commission is launching a short tailored guide to the downturn for small businesses. The guide contains advice on flexible working as an alternative to losing staff and understanding the law around redundancy.

The Audit Commission has announced today that "the housing service provided by Hackney Homes is 'good' and has 'promising' prospects for improvement". "On a scale from zero to three stars, the Audit Commission inspection team gave the service a good, two-stars rating. This is because there is positive performance in rent arrears, gas servicing and estate services. The ALMO has achieved value for m...

Ireland has acted well and quickly with its recall of its locally produced pork products due to contamination with cancer-causing dioxins, the European Commission said on Sunday.

MEPs yesterday (17 February) backed European Commission proposals to extend the scope of the Eco-design Directive and the Ecolabel, but rejected proposals to include food products in the plans.