The report calls for a common EU standard for colour-coding waste for sorting and recycling, as a way of increasing recycling rates.
Paul Breckell, chief executive of Action on Hearing Loss, said the new EU standard is important because increasing numbers of young people listen to music through a personal music player.
They were part of a group of 15 locations that failed to meet the EU and UK standard of 40 micrograms per cubic metre of nitrogen dioxide.
In March, wet weather was also blamed for a fall in the number of Welsh beaches reaching the top EU bathing water standard in the Marine Conservation Society's Good Beach Guide.
The commission has now accepted this argument, and is proposing that "fins attached" becomes standard across EU fleets, although there might be exceptions.
Conversely, it has taken the EU too long to accept standard IMF practice: when a country is bust its debt must be restructured.
It will be interesting to see whether some European states or EU officials try and develop their own alternative standard with Europe-wide legislation.
EU, should be held to a higher standard of behaviour.
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Tim Steinle, portfolio manager of the Eastern European Fund (EUROX), says that unlike Greece, which fudged its numbers to join the EU, Turkey was held to a higher standard.
Chrsitoph Prantner, a writer for Austrian paper Der Standard finds both pro- and anti-EU ("EU-freundlich und EU-feindlich") messages in the speech.
New rules will mean that borrowers across the European Union (EU) will be refused a mortgage if they fail a standard affordability assessment.
But overall, she said, the package would improve EU legislation on banking and represented "a move towards a global standard".
The Slovene retail chain Mercator bought many stores in ex-Yugoslav states, expecting the standard of living to rise as their countries got closer to EU membership.
The key feature is that any borrower across the 27 EU member states would be refused a home loan if they failed a standard credit worthiness assessment.
From 2015 EU countries have to ensure their beaches meet at least the "sufficient" standard, which is a step up for the existing mandatory level.
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EU, disproves the argument that rural countries cannot both have open markets and provide a standard service for everyone.
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