European Commission upholds procurement complaint Parking Review November 2010 Lee RowleyWestminster City Council has been found to have infringed European Union rules on local government procurement by the European Commission (EC). The commission investigated a complaint about the city council’s decision to enable members of the Partners in Parking (PiP) procurement group to join in its use...

According to the second paragraph of Article 197 of the Treaty establishing the European Community (TEC), Members of the Commission may attend all meetings and shall, at their request, be heard on behalf of the Commission. Under the consolidated Treaty of Lisbon, the first paragraph of Article 230 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) would shorten this to: The Commission m...

On Wednesday morning, the European Commission will plan how to force the Irish people to vote yes to Lisbon using €1.8 million of taxpayers' money. While the European Commission has democracy for breakfast , Libertas mourns its passing. Join us at the main entrance of the Berlaymont building, Boulevard Charlemagne, 08.45 - 10.15. For further information or photo opportunities, call Liber...

Despite its intensive work on state aid rules and decisions related to the financial and economic crisis, the Commission has launched two measures aiming at general state aid reform. The European Commission has published a State Aid Simplification Package, which consists of two parts. For a quick view, see press release State aid: Commission adopts Simplification Package to accelerate state aid de...

The Rt Hon Baroness Ashton, for it is she yesterday formally announced her acceptance of he rules governing her appointment to the European Commission. SOLEMN UNDERTAKING BEFORE THE COURT OF JUSTICE BY A NEW MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION Formal sitting of 2 February 2009 Following the resignation of Mr Peter Mandelson from his duties as a member of the European Commission, the Council of the E...

Even if José Manuel Barroso happened to be the best Commission President ever, the European political families should be hard at work competing for the next five year stint at the helm of the Commission. If political parties at European level, representing 500 million EU citizens, are unable to find one qualified candidate each, they betray both their calling and the voters. However, progre...

The European Commission has published a European Database for Financial Education (EDFE) on the "Europa" website. It has been designed to reference numerous financial education programmes offered by public or private institutions in the European Union.

The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has opened an investigation into the European Commission's "Early Warning System" (EWS). This computerised information system lists companies, NGOs, associations or other parties which, according to the Commission, are deemed to pose a threat to the financial interests of the European Union.

Yes, another useful crisis. Reports the Wall Street Journal, the European Commission criticized airport operators in western Europe for being ill-prepared to cope with bad weather. The commission, the European Union's executive arm, may draft new rules if airport operators can't voluntarily take action to plan better for severe weather, Siim Kallas, the commission's transport-policy...

The “institutional triangle” of the European Union ─ the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament ─ needs internal cooperation to function properly. The treaties define the competences of the European Union (European Community) as a whole and assign the roles to the players, but much of their interaction is left unregulated at this level. The institutions have therefore ...