Detection of Total Aflatoxins in Groundnut and Soybean Samples in Yemen Using Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay by Safwan Ahmed Abdullah Murshed, Nafees Bacha, Talal Alharazi

“…In addition, in 49.44% and 27.6% of the groundnut and soybean samples, total aflatoxins exceed the acceptable level of European Commission (4 μg/kg), while in only 6.2% of soybean samples and 22.47% of groundnut samples, total aflatoxins were beyond the maximum limit of FDA/Yemen standards (20 μg/kg). …”
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Transition to Circular Economy and Management of Public Services of General Economic Interest by Sandra Antoniazzi

“…Most of the existing documents and communications are provided by the European Commission and the analyses are based mainly on the guidelines of the new green policy and the specific EU legal framework. …”
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Regional Institutions at the Doorstep of post 2020 Cohesion Policy – Status Report from Hungary by Balázs Simó, Tamás Gordos, Viktória Józsa

“…In the post 2020 period, the European Commission continues to focus on the compliance with challenges of the knowledge-based economy, and in parallel, stands for a strong territorial approach and increased synergy and coordination of the connected sectoral financial means and measures. …”
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Conceptual and Institutional Aspects of EU Energy Policy (1990-2014) by Y. V. Borovskiy, K. V. Trachuk

“…The Lisbon Treaty made the energy policy a sphere of "shared competence" of EU institutions and member states. The European Commission's numerous policy documents ("White" and "Green books" 1995, 2000 and 2006) provided a basis for the development of an integrated energy market. …”
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Present and Future of the Energy Dialogue Russia – EU (Development of Energy Dialogue of Russia and EU in 2012) by K E. Petrov

“…In conclusion emphasizes that the removal of contradictions gets serious damage due to the fact that the European Commission is negotiating on behalf of the common customer of energy, and the Russian Federation – on behalf of the corporation.…”
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Entre gouvernance locale et institutionnalisation des territoires by Vincent Andreu-Boussut, Claire Choblet

“…For less than a decade, the European Commission has been working towards the promotion of the concept of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), which aims at identifying coherent coastal territories where all the various stakes and stakeholders could be taken into account. …”
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Analysis of Loss of Essential Power System Reported in Nuclear Power Plants by Andrija Volkanovski, Miguel Peinador Veira

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Historyczny rozwój programów działań na rzecz środowiska w Unii Europejskiej by Monika Kosior

“…The intensive economic development within EU member countries leading to a significant environment pollution invoked in 70’s a strong need to introduce uniform legal regulations of a common pro-ecological policy, therefore, during the Conference in Paris in 1972, the European Commission was obliged to work out particular programs for the environment protection, realization of which was intended to be done in subsequent time intervals. …”
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ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND AI IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW by Ileana Ioana BÎLBĂ

“…At the European level, it is the role of the European Commission to deal with the „ethical interests” regarding the observance of the five principles that will be a challenge for cyberjustice: respect for fundamental rights, nondiscrimination between individuals and groups of individuals, quality and security, transparency, neutrality and intellectual integrity and user control.…”
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Private Damages Actions in EU Competition Law and Restorative Justice: Towards a New Streamlined Institutional Framework? by Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel

“…This article argues, however, that the current emphasis on balancing public and private enforcement of the European Commission focuses too little on the need and healing effects of restoration. …”
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Goal-Setting in Budget Expenditure Reviews: A Comparative Analysis of Russian and Foreign Practice by A. V. Kireeva

“…The goals of saving budget become a priority in a situation of increasing budget deficit, or under pressure from international structures such as the European Commission. At the same time, the task of overcoming budgetary incrementalism, that is, the annual “inheritance” of the structure and volume of current expenditures, is usually not solved, even if it is reflected in the reviews. …”
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The Problem of Obtaining Evidence from EU Countries While Achieving the “Crime Does Not Pay” Goal by Šalčius Marijus, Molienė Reda

“…In the context of the European Union’s efforts to fight crime in a comprehensive manner and in line with the European Commission’s Communication of 2008, that confiscation and recovery of proceeds are a powerful means for fighting organized crime effectively and its commitment to support the development of confiscation-related legislative and non-legislative measures1, alternative legal instruments to achieve the “crime does not pay” objective are also being developed, where obtaining evidence from other Member States is also a key issue. …”
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(Too) many policies under one roof? About the integration of competition law enforcement and sectoral regulation within one authority by Anna Piszcz

“…The article will also take into account that public enforcement of the prohibition of unfair trading practices provided for in Directive 2019/633 (“UTP Directive”), and limited to the agri-food market, was assigned to competition authorities (in line with the European Commission’s suggestion), which is the case of almost half of the EU Member States. …”
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RAGE Architecture for Reusable Serious Gaming Technology Components by Wim van der Vegt, Wim Westera, Enkhbold Nyamsuren, Atanas Georgiev, Iván Martínez Ortiz

“…For seizing the potential of serious games, the RAGE project—funded by the Horizon-2020 Programme of the European Commission—will make available an interoperable set of advanced technology components (software assets) that support game studios at serious game development. …”
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Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of an essential oil derived from the aerial parts of Mentha × piperita L. (peppermint oil) for use in all animal species (FEFANA a... by EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP), Roberto Edoardo Villa, Giovanna Azimonti, Eleftherios Bonos, Henrik Christensen, Mojca Durjava, Birgit Dusemund, Ronette Gehring, Boet Glandorf, Maryline Kouba, Marta López‐Alonso, Francesca Marcon, Carlo Nebbia, Alena Pechová, Miguel Prieto‐Maradona, Ilen Röhe, Katerina Theodoridou, Maria de Lourdes Bastos, Paul Brantom, Andrew Chesson, Josef Schlatter, Johannes Westendorf, Yvette Dirven, Paola Manini

“…Abstract Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the safety and efficacy of an essential oil from the aerial parts of Mentha × piperita L. …”
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UNIVERSITIES UNDER THE MAGNIFYING GLASS OF GLOBAL UNIVERSITY RANKINGS: THE PERFORMANCE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION by Carolina LLORENTE-PORTILLO, Laura GÓMEZ-URQUIJO, Marta ENCISO SANTOCILDES

“…Our findings reveal that while the European Commission strive to create a public framework that supports entrepreneurship education, the sampled international rankings do not consider entrepreneurship as a criterion to evaluate university performance.…”
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Revised dietary exposure assessment of the food enzyme triacylglycerol lipase from the genetically modified Aspergillus oryzae strain NZYM‐AL by EFSA Panel on Food Enzymes (FEZ), Holger Zorn, José Manuel Barat Baviera, Claudia Bolognesi, Francesco Catania, Gabriele Gadermaier, Ralf Greiner, Baltasar Mayo, Alicja Mortensen, Yrjö Henrik Roos, Marize L. M. Solano, Monika Sramkova, Henk Van Loveren, Laurence Vernis, Daniele Cavanna, Yi Liu

“…Due to the implementation of a new methodology to estimate the dietary exposure to food enzymes in 2016, the European Commission requested EFSA to revise the exposure assessment of this food enzyme by using this new methodology. …”
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Challenges and Their Possible Solutions in the Ever-Changing Lake Balaton Region by Erzsébet Peter, Kornél Németh, Tamás Molnár, Katalin Molnárné Barna

“…Health literacy, which promotes the cooperation between health care employees and the people, has become a new, important concept for the European Commission. If health literacy is integrated into the European Union Health Strategy that emphasises the increasing role of citizens, the efficiency of the health care system may improve and the burdens may decrease. …”
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A Fortnite and odd days: the console wars by Alba Ribera Martínez

“…Instead, several breakthroughs such as introducing cloud gaming and subscription video gaming services have contributed to blurring the lines of market delineation altogether. The European Commission’s approach through merger control has been instrumental to provide some guidance on the subject, although its Vivendi/Activision, Activision Blizzard/King and Microsoft/ZeniMax have not paid attention to the special characteristics of video gaming, namely differences between user experience when playing different game genres and when playing across platforms. …”
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Visualizing climate targets: mapping the 93 funded E.U. Erasmus+ projects versus SDGs and horizon missions targets<subtitle>The case of the Knowledge Alliances program versus SDG13... by Mennatullah Hendawy

“…This study investigates the 93 awarded projects from the Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliances (KA) program between 2014 and 2018 from the perspective of their contribution to the climate-related UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – SDG13: Climate Action and the climate-related European Commission’s Horizon Missions (HMs) – HM2: Climate-neutral and Smart Cities and HM5: Climate Change Adaptation and Societal Transformation. …”
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