While it benefits citizens for governmental agencies to advise on efficacy and safety of products that have been commonly and freely used by utilising a particular method of inquiry, that information may not address the needs of individuals and presumes that there is only one system for obtaining accurate and beneficial information. That is equivalent to allowing only one religion as the accepted source of truth.

The costs and systems required by THMPD are generally not manageable by small manufacturers, which are the predominant suppliers of herbal products. This results in an unfair competitive advantage to multinational corporations, which ultimately limits the individual's access to quality and selection in herbal medicinal products.

With THMPD, the European Union has overstepped and is severely restricting the unwritten rights of each human being to choose and access methods of managing health. It is a dangerous usurpation of civil rights that assumes the individual does not have the ability to make proper health decisions. Self-determination in matters of health must be treated as an inherent civil right, and THMPD is an abrogation of it.

Read this to see the sort of madness that the EU Commission is already enacting--and that you may help stop by signing this petition.

All signatures are welcome, though ones without all requested information may not be counted and non-EU signatures will not be counted. However, we welcome all signatures as supportive of this cause.

There are one million Europeans each year whale watching on these boats and this petition will give voice to their concerns about whaling.

As citizens of the European Union we want our governments to take all necessary actions to protect our planet's environment.

It is unacceptable that a politician who has been found guilty of academic fraud be allowed to serve on a committee charged with overseeing European research policies and research funding.

We also call on Ms Koch-Mehrin’s party, the German Freie Demokratische Partei, as well as on the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament, to undertake everything in their power to convince Ms Koch-Mehrin to resign from the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and from her mandate in the European Parliament.

Finally, we call on Ms Koch-Mehrin herself to take responsibility for the academic fraud she has committed and to resign from the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and from her mandate in the European Parliament voluntarily in order to avert further damage to the prestige of these institutions, to the scientific community, and to the country that she represents in the European Parliament.

Deutsch
Die Unterzeichner rufen das Europäische Parlament auf, Frau Silvana Koch-Mehrin aus dem Ausschuss für Industrie, Forschung und Energie abzuberufen. Jüngst stellte die Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg fest, dass Frau Koch-Mehrin einen großen Teil ihrer Doktorarbeit zum Thema „Historische Währungsunion zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik: Die Lateinische Münzunion“ mit ungenauer Nennung der Quelle oder ganz ohne Nennung der Quelle bei anderen Autoren abgeschrieben hat. Die Universität hat Frau Koch-Mehrin am 15. Juni 2011 den Doktorgrad entzogen.

Es ist inakzeptabel, dass jemand, der sich des akademischen Betrugs schuldig gemacht hat, in einem Ausschuss sitzt, der die europäische Forschungspolitik und ihre Finanzierung überwacht.

Desweiteren rufen wir die Partei von Frau Koch-Mehrin, die Freie Demokratische Partei Deutschlands, sowie die Fraktion der Allianz der Liberalen und Demokraten für Europa im europäischen Parlament auf, alle in ihrer Macht stehenden Maßnahmen zu ergreifen, um Frau Koch-Mehrin davon zu überzeugen, ihre Mitgliedschaft im Ausschuss für Industrie, Forschung und Energie und ihr Mandat im Europäischen Parlament niederzulegen.
Zuletzt fordern wir Frau Koch-Mehrin selbst auf, für den akademischen Betrug, den sie begangen hat, die Verantwortung zu übernehmen und von ihrem Amt im Ausschuss für Industrie, Forschung und Energie und von ihrem Mandat im Europäischen Parlament zurückzutreten, um weiteren Schaden am Ansehen dieser Institutionen, der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft und dem Land, das sie im Europäischen Parlament repräsentiert, abzuwenden.

Français
Les soussignés demandent au Parlement européen de révoquer la nomination de Mme Silvana Koch-Mehrin au sein de la Commission de l'Industrie, la Recherche et l'Énergie. Récemment, l'Université d'Heidelberg a conclu que Mme Koch-Mehrin a copié une grande partie de sa thèse de doctorat intitulée Historische Währungsunion zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik. Die Lateinische Münzunion (« L'union monétaire historique entre l'économie et la politique : l'Union Latine ») à partir d'œuvres d'autres auteurs sans le signaler, ou bien de manière imprécise. Le 15 juin 2011, l'université a révoqué le doctorat de Mme Koch-Mehrin.

Il est inacceptable qu'une personne qui s'est rendue coupable de fraude académique puisse devenir membre d'une commission dédiée au contrôle de la politique européenne de recherche et son financement.
De plus, nous demandons au parti de Mme Koch-Mehrin, les Freie Demokratische Partei Deutschlands (« Parti des Démocrates Libres de l'Allemagne »), ainsi qu'au groupe parlementaire de l'Alliance des démocrates et des libéraux pour l'Europe du Parlement Européen, de faire tout ce qui est en leur pouvoir afin de convaincre Mme Koch-Mehrin de démissionner de la Commission de l'Industrie, la Recherche et l'Énergie du Parlement européen.

Enfin, nous demandons directement à Mme Koch-Mehrin d'assumer la responsabilité de ses actes et de démissionner d'elle-même de la Commission de l'Industrie, la Recherche et l'Énergie et du Parlement européen, ceci afin d'éviter tout autre dommage à la réputation de cette institution, de la communauté scientifique et du pays qu'elle représente au Parlement européen.

Motif affiché de ce plan : l'arrêt prévu, faute de financement de la Commission européenne, du site d'information en dix langues Presseurop, hébergé au sein de Courrier international, et qui emploie 11 personnes.

La rédaction s'élève contre ce plan qu'elle juge disproportionné et parfaitement injuste, qui ne peut se traduire que par un appauvrissement du contenu du journal et son affaiblissement durable."

China's Premier Wen Jiabao said China wanted to see Europe -- its biggest trading partner -- "maintain stability and prosperity", a day after ratings agency Moody's downgraded Italy, Spain and Portugal.

The two sides also agreed during the talks to give fresh impetus to Beijing's efforts to attain full market economy status (MES) for China in the European Union, according to a joint communique issued after the summit.

"China is ready to increase its participation in resolving the EU debt problems," the Chinese premier told journalists after meeting EU president Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso.

China was considering using Europe's bail-out funds to help address the continent's fiscal woes, Wen added, without elaborating further on how the Asian power might be prepared to contribute.

"China will continue to fully meet its World Trade Organization commitments," he said. "It will continue to expand market access."

Read more: EUbusiness http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/china-finance-debt.f6g/

//In this case we have the spotlight on China as it concerns a political position. The petition says that we European citizens do not want to increase our trade with China. We want instead to an end. We want to INCREASE the embargo against China.

This is to force China to adjust its animal welfare. This is only possible through the economic force of China, to institute laws prohibiting Chinese to torment, torturing and skinning animals alive. Some Chinese people seem completely brainwashed to carry out these atrocities.

We know there are good people in China who are fighting for the animals and there are those we sustain through this petition. For animal friends there are no borders.//

Each action distils the collective responses to questions asked in the online public consultation conducted by genSET in conjunction with the 1st European Gender Summit. As such, it complements the consensus recommendations of: a) the genSET Science Leaders Panel1, b) the DG Research, Innovation and Science Expert Group on Structural Change in Research Institutions2, and c) the Gendered Innovations project3.

The Manifesto elaborates the question included in the earlier EC public consultation on the Green Paper - “What actions should be taken at EU level to further strengthen the role of women in science and innovation?” - in order to focus attention on twenty-five years of research demonstrating how gender impacts the quality of research and innovation.

Over 300 individuals participated in the online consultation. These contributions were presented and discussed at the First European Gender Summit in Brussels, attended by over 400 stakeholders.

This Manifesto is a work in progress to be advanced through evidence based actions and cooperation between scientists, policy makers and gender research scholars.

For this to happen we urge all Eritreans and Eritrea Loving People to show their support.

Many animals are poisoned and die a very painful death, others are beaten to death, or hanged and strangled. Many are hit by cars and left to die.

Some end up in horrible captivity where life is frightening and tormenting, and many die of disease or starvation. Enclosures in these countries are hot in summer and cold in winter. The animals die from heat stroke or freeze to death. The country and the business sector does not want that these animals disturb the good impression of their country and affect tourism negatively.

None of these countries have made efforts to curb the stray animal population by neutering campaigns, or information about neutering to the public. Instead, these countries chose to poison or otherwise get rid of their abandoned, unwanted companion animals. Never or rarely do they punish someone for abuse or murder of animals. These countries are making a strict difference between an animal with an owner and an abandoned animal. In these countries, an abandoned animal can be treated as badly as you like and in many eyes they are seen as unwanted debris that disrupts the community.

Some of these countries still enjoy the torture of bulls during bullfights and have a variety of traditions in which animals are involved and tormented. In all these countries, dogs are used for hunting. These dogs are treated very badly and starvation to death is common between the hunting seasons. They are often killed or abandoned after a bad game.

DEFEND YOUR RIGT TO DECIDE OVER YOUR BODY AND LIFE WHEN HOSPITALIZED!

(new information is added to the text) A new bill** in the EU will abolish the directive* that protects the patient´s right to prior and free consent to trials with new medicine in emergency situations. Instead `subsequent consent´is proposed, meaning: The doctor can use emergency patients for a medicinal trial. And only a f t e r a patient regains consciousness will he be asked for consent to the trial. This is absurd and a violation of civil rights!

The bill is now being negotiated in the European Parliament. Due to the powerful lobbying of the pharmaceutical industry it will most likely be adopted in the first half of 2014 unless the citizens of Europe voice their protest!

Physicians are obliged to respect a patient's decision not to participate in trials. Each member State in the EU should therefore set up an electronic register, where citizens in advance can give their yes or no to participating in trials in cases of emergency.

This will enable doctors at the hospitals to check a patient's decision on the screen within a few minutes, and the citizen’s personal rights will be safeguarded.

**Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council, on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use, and repealing Directive 2001/20/EC

* Directive 2001/20/EC –on Good Clinical practice.

These laws have yet to be reflected in the inshore and coastal areas of the EU.

The following have happened this year:

25th January, Belgium, Olivier Rouxhet, Civil protection fire fighter diver, drowned when trapped on a sluice gate in the river Meuse during a search for two missing children.

23rd March, Spain, Javier Diaz-Macias was working (upstream) on a dam, his body was recovered downstream, it looks like he went through the spillway.

28th March, Spain, Hector Luelmo-Mayo, A soldier with the 5th intervention Battalion based in El Ferral de Bernesga, one of a 4 man diving team, separated from his group, body recovered the day after.

27th April, Italy, Ottavio Baumgartner, Cleaning water intake grill at a the Edipower plant in Sermide in Northern Italy, found stuck on the grill with his mask off, failed to respond to treatment.

4th June, Spain, Julio Dacosta-Gallo, Cleaning the propeller of a tug when 'somebody' started her up, his colleague (Andres) on the other side of the prop was injured but blown clear, Gallo got sucked through the blades and cut to pieces.

7th June, Portugal, David Mato-Garrido, Fish Farm or Fish Processing Plant, Sucked up a water inlet pipe and drowned in the hour it took to get a recovery diver to him.

9th July, Spain, Daniel Heres Álvarez, diver died gathering gelidium ( a kind of kelp used to extract several foods,pharmaceutical and cosmetics components mainly agar-agar ), in north of Spain due to unsafe procedures.

It is time the regulations took into account the safety and training of commercial divers on inland and coastal waters!