Internet Commission

The European Commission published the first draft (a. 11) of the REACH legislation to implement the White Paper on 7 May 2003. There was an 8-week Internet consultation on the workability of this legislation from 16 May to 10 July 2003, and about 6,400 contributions were received. The final proposed Regulation (a. 12), which took account of the Internet consultation, was presented on 29 October 2003. These formal legislative proposals have to be discussed by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament under the Codecision Procedure. 

In the electric power industry, open sources of information—such as product data and educational videotapes from engineering associations—can be used to understand the basics of the electrical grid. Other publicly available information—including filings of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), industry publications, maps, and material available on the Internet—is sufficient to allow someone to identify the most heavily loaded transmission lines and the most critical substations in the power grid. 

New substances are registered in ELINCS (European List of Notified Chemical Substances). ELINCS is published in the Official Journal of the European Union. A 5th edition of ELINCS, compiling substances notified until 30 June 1995, is the last available update published in the Official Journal. A 6th edition, comprehensive of substances notified until 30 June 1998, and published in aU EU languages as a Commission document, is available online via Europa EUR-Lex Web site http // eur-lex.europa.eu/, located under Documents of Public Interest with reference COM(2003) 642, dated 29.10.2003. ELINCS is currently maintained in English only, and published only as an Internet document on the ECB Web site (ECB 2006), where the latest update replaces previous versions. 

By the published Directive 1999/2/EC, the European commission was charged to develop a final positive list of permitted items until the end of 2000, but the contents of this list are not yet published. There was even a consultation on this problem on the Internet and industry and consumer organizations responded [130]. As long as the positive list is not adopted. Member States can maintain the existing regulations except for spices [131]. 

FDA commissioned a study of dietary supplement sales in the United States in 1999. Samples of products were purchased from a representative sample of retail establishments, catalogs, and the Internet. The authors looked at the consistency of botanical products purchased. Forty percent to 46% of botanicals and botanical products were consistent with the ingredients listed on the label. Botanical extracts were even less consistent with the label, only 12%i to 24%i (depending on where purchased) were found to be consistent... 

On January 25, 2000, die committee referred to in Article 19 of IPPC Directive gave a favorable opinion of a draft Commission Decision on die implementation of a European Pollutant Emission Register. The Commission Decision (2000/479/EC), to be referred to as die EPER Decision, was adopted on July 17, 2000. According to the EPER Decision, member states shall report to the Commission on emissions into ah and water from all individual facilities widi one or more activities as mentioned in Annex I to the IPPC Directive. The provided data will be made publicly accessible and disseminated on the Internet. Specifically, EPER is a publicly accessible register with emission data diat enables the Commission and national governments to monitor the trends in annual emissions of large industrial activities covered by Annex I of the IPPC Directive (Commission Decision, 2000). 

The Commission has published an interpretation on what is meant by main commercial conditions , available on the Internet at ... 

Most of the expert advice that forms the scientific basis of EC legislation on chemical contaminants in food is provided by the Commission s scientific advisory committees working in the food safety area. The experts on these committees are expected to provide independent advice and not represent their countries or the organisations that employ them. The results of the deliberations of the scientific advisory committees are published and are also available on the Internet at DG SANCO s web site (http //europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/ health consumer/index en.htm). 

The Commission s Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) carries out inspections in Member States to check that they have incorporated EC legislation into their national regulations and that they are enforcing it properly. The reports of these inspections are placed on the Internet at DG SANCO s web site. 

During the development of REACH the EU Commission held extensive dialog with stakeholders before and after the proposal was presented. Stakeholders sent over 6000 responses during the REACH Internet consultation and contributed to the REACH Impact Assessment both before and after the launch of the Commission REACH proposal in 2003,75 One of the purposes of the collaboration was to help the EU Commission improve the design and cost effectiveness of the system. 

IUPAC. (2001). Appendix II. Definitions, Terminology and Symbols in Colloid and Surface Chemistry, part I. 57, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Commission on Colloid and Surface Chemistry Including Catalysis, Washington, DC available on internet at the URX http / / www.iupac.org/ reports/2001 / colloid 2001 / manual ofi s and t.pdf. 

EU Commission 1999, Practical Guide, Internet, http //cpf.jrc.it/webpack. 

Information is provided by many institutions, often via the Internet and with similar instruments as described above in the EEA example. An example for a recent consultation process is the development of the REACH legislation where the European Commission (EC) actively sought the opinion of interest groups in public stakeholder consultations. 

Nursing Emergency Preparedness Education Coalition (NEPEC), formerly the International Nursing Coalition for Mass Casualty Incidents http //WWW. me. Vanderbilt, eda/nursing/coalitions/ INCMCE/overview, html Internet Disaster Information Network http //WWW. disaster, net/index. html Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations... 

The BP Commission can also call on expertise available in the British Pharmacopoeia laboratories situated in the premises of the Laboratory of the Government Chemist in West London. The BP laboratory carries out and validates assay procedures for the Commission and in addition, is responsible for the procurement, establishment, maintenance and sale of British Pharmacopoeia Chemical Reference Substances (BPCRS). These reference substances, as their name suggests, are authentic samples of a drug or decomposition product which are used as standards in a drug assay. The BP laboratory also fulfils an important forensic role in the control of counterfeit medicines. With the advent of the internet, the public can easily gain access to supplies of prescription-only medicines online. These medicines are often adulterated, contaminated or simply counterfeit, and comparison with authentic samples is necessary to ensure that the correct preparation is supplied. 

Ito various internet sites including http //sdpd.univ-lemans.fr/ftp/itol3.zip lUCr (International Union of Crystallography) http //www.iucr.org/ lUCr Commission on Crystallographic Computing Newsletter http //www. 

Helsinki Commission can be used as a suitable tool to assess the success of the efforts Baltic Sea Pollution Load Compilations, Periodical Assessments of the State of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea, and other publications available for download from the internet (www.helcom.fi/publications/bsep/en GB/bseplist). 

The changes proposed by the UK government and those by the EU Commission are partly in response to the fact that we are now able to access information via the internet, which does not recognise national boundaries. UK citizens have access to US information, which may or may not be reliable. 

CAC (Codex Alimentarius Commission) (2001). Guidelines for the Production, Processing, Labelling and Marketing of Organically Produced Foods , CAC/GL 32. 1999 Rev 1 -2001. Available from the Internet 12 December 2001-... 

The 75-year series of annual flow of the Aral Sea catchment rivers has been formed on the basis of the official publications of the Hydrometeorological Service of USSR [6-12], the data on water withdrawal reported by Basin Water Organization Amudarya, Basin Water Organization Syrdarya, and the Scientific-Information Center Interstate Coordination Water Commission of Central Asia (SIC ICWC) (Internet sites www.sic.icwc-aral.uz and www.cawater-info.net). 

An Investment Club. Use fake money or commodities and divide up into teams with your family or co-op. Take weekly buy and sell orders, record them, figure commissions, and do company research in the newspapers and on the Internet. Share what you understand from what you ve read and heard and ask questions. 

Member states will be obliged to report to the Commission every three years. The first reports, providing data on 2001 emissions, should be sent no later than June 2003. The Commission, assisted by the European Environment Agency, will make this EPER data, including site specific information, publicly available on the internet. 

GIS). A three letter code (e.g. GIS) is assigned to confirmed framework types by the Structure Commission of the International Zeolite Association according to rules set up by an 1UPAC Commission on Zeolite Nomenclature [3,4]. The codes are normally derived from the name of the zeolite or type material , e.g. FAU from the mineral faujasite, LTA from Linde Type A, and MFI from ZSM-5 (Zeolite Socony Mobil - five). Information pertinent to these framework types is published in the Atlas of Zeolite Framework Types [5] and on the internet at http //www.iza-strncture.org/databases/. As new codes are approved, they arc announced on the IZA Structure Commission s WWW pages (http //www.iza-structure.org/) and included in the internet version of the Atlas. As of January 2005, 161 zeolite framework types had been confirmed by the Structure Commission. In this chapter, all references to materials whose framework types are known will be accompanied by the appropriate three letter code in boldface type. 

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