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• Environment Health & Safety (EHS)
  Energy Efficiency, EuP, REACH, WEEE/RoHS
• Security
  Biometrics, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Network and Information Security
• Standards & Certification (S&C)
  Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive (EMC), Environment Standards (includes EuP), Low Voltage Directive (LVD), Review of New Approach

March - April, 2006:  AeA International Environment Programs Roadshow:  Are You Prepared? 
Hear the latest legal analysis from the leading WEEE/RoHS legal resources.

• Thursday, March 2, 2006:  Sunnyvale, California
  Host Facility: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
  
• Monday, March, 2006:  Redmond, Washington
  Host Facility: Microsoft Corporation
  
• Thursday, March 9, 2006:  Andover, Massachusetts
  Host Facility: Philips Medical Systems
  
• Tuesday, April 4, 2006:  Chicago, Illinois
  Host Facility: Motorola
  
• Thursday, April 6, 2006:  Denver, Colorado
  Host Facility: Sun Microsystems Data Management Group (StorageTek) campus

March 6 - 7, 2006:  AeA, AeA Europe, and AeA's member companies are invited to attend and participate in a two day RFID Conference in Brussels, Belgium organized by the European Commission.  The event will be held on March 6-7, 2006.  For more information on attending please visit the conference website or download AeA's invitation.

December 14 - 15, 2005:  AeA's FY2005 Chairman John V. Harker and AeA President & CEO William T. Archey traveled to Brussels on December 14-15, 2005, for meetings with European Commission officials, European High-Tech Trade Association leaders, and the Executive Committee of AeA Europe...read more.

December 5, 2005:  AeA and Allen & Overy LLP launch of new Online EU Environmental Law Compliance Service by Spitalfields Projects LLP.  The new online service provides comprehensive information on implementation of WEEE and RoHS Directives across the European Union...read more.

November 30 - December 1, 2005:  Tom Edman, AeA Chairman of the Board for FY2006, traveled to Brussels with Rob Mulligan, AeA Senior Vice President International, for meetings with Viviane Reding (EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media), Members of the European Parliament, the US Mission to the EU, and the AeA Europe Executive Committee...read more. 

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AeA Europe is a not-for-profit association of high tech companies of American parentage doing business of more than € 100 billion in Europe.

Established in 1990 in Brussels, AeA Europe focuses on managing issues surrounding environment, regulatory standards, security policy and the impact of EU policies on transatlantic trade, investments, jobs, research, education and community affairs throughout Europe.

Members employ over 500,000 people in Europe, active throughout the high technology spectrum, from software, semiconductors and computers to Internet technology, advanced electronics and telecommunications systems and services. 

Mission:  Our mission is to inform our Member Companies of relevant EU policy and regulatory developments and to represent their interests at the EU level in the most efficient and effective manner so as to foster the sustainable growth of the global IT sector.

Learn more about AeA Europe at www.aeanet.org/europe

"Europe in a Page" is a monthly publication prepared by AeA Europe Managing Director, James Lovegrove.  It endeavors to condense - as far as it is possible - the previous month's high-tech news.  It focuses mainly on AeA Europe policy priorities, namely:  Environment, Health and Safety (EHS), and Standards & Certification (S&C).

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