"… launched the Bluefin Tuna Catch Document Scheme (BCD), a program that the European Commission lauded as bringing “complete and reliable traceability” to the trade. …"

"… �I can understand there is a need for transparency,” Maria Damanaki, the European Commission’s top fisheries official, told ICIJ. “If any case is complete, you sho …"

"… case is complete, you should have the full data."Yet ICIJ requests to the European Commission for records on fishing and farming infringements were routinely denied. Th …"

"… hey use to assess the bluefin stock has “considerable limitations.”The European Commission’s Damanaki — newly installed and widely seen as a reformer — says sh …"

"… to impose bans. But the biggest blow for chrysotile came in 1999, when the European Commission decreed that products made of white asbestos would be outlawed as of Jan. …"

"… ation’s bluefin tuna fishing fleet before reporting those figures to the European Commission.Since 2007 the ministry “has stopped the practices of earlier years and …"

"… eason’s end adjusted the actual catch downward when they reported to the European Commission, which in turn reported to ICCAT, according to industry and government off …"

"… culated the catches.”Scientists declared the French catch figures to the European Commission in those first years. But when France was criticized for overfishing, the …"

"… its officials doctored catch data — data that were then passed on to the European Commission and ICCAT. Ministry officials have not responded to a dozen written reques …"

"… 1999 when his office took  over reporting final catch figures to the European Commission. Today Aurand is the Ministry’s secretary general, one of its highest-ra …"

"… em called the Bluefin Tuna Catch Document Scheme (BCD), a program that the European Commission lauded as bringing “complete and reliable traceability” to the trade. …"

"… ustomers to European competitors which have less-stringent regulations.The European Commission is not expected to take up stricter derivatives rules until 2012 or later, …"

"… postpone full auctioning of CO2 permits until a set of benchmarks from the European Commission could determine which sectors are most susceptible to “carbon leakage,� …"

"… en registered — about a tenth of the 15,000 to 20,000 lobbyists that the European Commission estimates actually operate in Brussels. They would typically act not only …"

"… ing relationships with decision makers.Jos Delbeke, deputy director at the European Commission’s department for the environment, confirms the importance of these longs …"

"… g dates back to 2005, say insiders, to a little-known advisory body to the European Commission’s research department. Called the European Technology Platform for Zero …"

"… e EU budget. The group obtained up to €500,000 over three years from the European Commission’s research department — funding designated to support “the coordinat …"

"… ed under the EU Access to Documents Regulation, BP was in contact with the European Commission about CCS back in 2005 — at the executive director and CEO level. Also t …"

"… s. And that has led to the next dogfight over energy funds. Currently, the European Commission is preparing the rules for how companies can apply for the certificates. I …"

"… ones, is set to launch as soon as the company addresses satisfactorily the European Commission's concerns about the scheme's monopolistic implications. The strategy will …"

"… utilities to free market forces. Documents obtained by ICIJ show that the European Commission trade office works closely with Thames, Suez, Vivendi and other private wa …"