European Communities Joint Research Centre

EuReDatA Project Report No. 1, Reference Classification Concerning Components Reliability. T. Luisi, Commission of the European Communities, Joint Research Centre, Ispra Establishment, S.A./1.05.01.83.02. 

Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements, Commission of the European Communities, Joint Research Centre, Geel (Belgium). 

Certified reference materials (CRMs) with certified values for Al available at the time of preparation of this review from the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, European Community Joint Research Centre were ground water, an aquatic plant, olive leaves, beech leaves, pine needles, lichen and titanium (http // www.irmm.jrc.be). Non-Al-certified materials available were coals, river sediment, seawater, zinc and zinc alloys and titanium alloy. CRMs with certified values for Al were available from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (http // www.nist.gov/) for days, coal, coal fly-ash, glasses, limestone, lubricating oil, a met-allo-organic Al, oyster tissue, pine needles, plant leaves, rice and wheat flours and zinc-Al alloys. Bone meal, bovine liver and muscle powder, a milk powder, and urine with non-certified Al values were available. 

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A large portion of the overall GHG emissions from the supply of biomass based fuels results from the formation of N20 in fertilised soils. To calculate N20 emissions, the European Soil Model is typically applied, developed by the European Joint Research Centre in Ispra (Italy). The data in Table 7.5 represent the average N20 emissions from the plantation of rapeseed in EU25 (R. Edwards, personal communication, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, August 2005). 

European Union Risk Assessment Report (2003) 1,2-Benzenedicarboxylic acid, di-C8-10-branched alkyl esters, C9-rich and di- isononyl phthalate (DINP), European commission Joint Research Centre, EUR 20784 EN, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities... 

Commission of the Europen Communities Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe Establishment, European Institute for Transuranium Elements, Postfach 2266, D-7500 Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany... 

Ispra Mark 13A A flue-gas desulfurization process developed at the Joint Research Centre of the European Community at Ispra, Italy, from 1979. It uses a novel electrochemical method to regenerate the solution used for absorbing the sulfur dioxide. The products are concentrated sulfuric acid and hydrogen. The absorbent is a dilute aqueous solution of sulfuric and hydrobromic acids, containing a small amount of elemental bromine. Sulfur dioxide reacts with the bromine thus ... 

G. Capodaglio, G. Toscano, P. Cescon, G. Scarponi, H. Muntau, Collaborative sampling error assessment study on sea water analysis lead, cadmium and copper, AQUACON MedBas Project Report no. 3, Joint Research Centre Ispra, Commission of the European Communities, Ispra, Italy (1992). 

In the late 1960s the Joint Research Centre of the Commission of the European Community decided to revise its research programmes, then entirely devoted to nuclear research, and to venture into other fields of activities of European relevance. One of the options, amongst others, was environmental research — not a big issue in those times. 

At the EC s DG Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability (lES), the European Platform on LCA [41] was established by the European Commission in response to the IPP Communication to increase the availability and... 

The Seveso Directive is administered by the European Union through the Major Accident Hazards Bureau services (MAHB) located within the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy. The Bureau also oversees the European Community s Documentation Centre Industrial Risk (CDCIR) and manages the Major Accident Reporting System (MARS) with the aim to create a repository of information and facilitate the exchange between the members of the European Community. MARS follows the requirements of the Seveso II directive and collects information about major chemical incidents as well as the response and results. Member States are required to report the events by using standardized forms. 

In addition, it has become mandatory for companies or organizations wanting to have their biotech crops approved in Europe to provide reference material as well as a specific detection method. This is then tested and validated by ENGL, the European Network of GMO Laboratories, coordinated by the Community Reference Laboratory of the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. This is laid down in Regulation 2003/1829/EC ... 

Chemistry Division, The Ispra Establishment of the Joint Research Centre of the Commission of the European Communities, 1-21020 Ispra(VA), Italy. 

ECDIN is a factual databank, created at the Ispra Establishment of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the Commission of the European Communities as a part of the Commission s Environmental Research Programme. The databank enables people engaged in environmental management and research to obtain reliable information on chemical compounds. The databank brings together a wide variety of data on chemicals which actually or potentially occur in the environment as a result of human activities. The broad spectrum of parameters and properties contained in ECDIN provides the user with general information on chemical substances and supports the evaluation of the risks connected to the use of these substances. The ECDIN database establishes links between various types of data is therefore a powerful tool for correlation analyses. 

Interlaboratory exercises focusing on nuclear forensics have been initiated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Community. The two most recent exercises were called NUSIMEP-6 (Aregbe et al. 2008) and NUSIMEP-7 (Truyens et al. 2013) (NUSIMEP—Nuclear Signatures Inter-laboratory Measurement Evaluation Programme). In these exercises, identical samples were sent to the participating laboratories and the predefined analytes (content and isotopic ratios) were measured and reported to the coordinators, who then compiled the results, compared them with the target value, and produced a report. The remainder of the samples that were not consumed in the measurements can subsequently serve as standards for future measurements. One other benefit of these intercomparisons is that the accuracy and effectiveness of the different analytical procedures and the instrumentation can be assessed. In addition, corrective measures can be implemented in order to improve the performance. Finally, the cooperation between the scientists and the laboratories can lead to the development of standard procedures and recommended methods. This is essential for nuclear forensics where the implications of the analytical results, as mentioned earlier, may evoke political and even military actions in some cases. 

The original impetus to hold the Symposium came from a two year collaborative project partially funded by the Commission of the European Communities under the 1979-83 Informatics Initiative. The sponsors of the Symposium studied the assessment, architecture and performance of industrial programmable electronic systems, with particular reference to robotics. The group of papers in the first session give the first public report of the results of this project. The session was Chaired by H Fangmeyer from the Commission s Joint Research Centre at Ispra, Italy, who was the Commission s Project Manager throughout the collaboration. 

Morel, C. F. (1970) Surface Tensions of Molten Salts and Contact Angle Measurements of Molten Salts on Solids, EUR 4482 e, Commission of the European Communities-Euratom, Joint Nuclear Research Centre, Petten Establishment, Netherlands Nicholas, M. G. (1986a)7. Mater. Sci., 21, 3392 Nicholas, M. G. (1986b) Brit. Ceram. Trans., 85, 144... 

The workshop was jointly organized by the Commission of the European Communities, the Centre for Water Research (S. V.W.) and the institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology (I.H.E.). 

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