GRANITO is pleased to announce its support and endorsement of Impact Funds, evidenced by its joining the Women's Impact Fund, a collective giving organization of 400 women operating in the Charlotte community. GRANITO's support is based on its believe that collaborative sources of funding can help drive progress by spurring change, growth and innovation, especially in situations where other sources of financial support are either non-existent or buried with restraints. GRANITO welcomes others to collaborate and grow globally with them in 2014. More...

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The current Dutch Government is focusing heavily on innovation. The Ministry of Economic Affairs, for example, has established a whole raft of subsidy schemes via which the government is pumping millions of euro per year into the Dutch economy. This, however, is not the only way in which the government can encourage innovation. Innovation should also be encouraged by constant efforts on the part of government to respond to technical developments. This in turn requires that legislation be rapidly...

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Expectation of Privacy Workers do not leave their privacy and data protection rights at the door when they come into work each day. Article 8 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“ECHR”) provides that “everyone has a right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence”. The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) has found that this privacy right also applies in the workplace, as workers are not...

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The European Electricity Target Model ("Target Model") is a set of harmonised arrangements for the cross-border trading of wholesale energy and balancing services across Europe. This will impact on all participants in the market and ultimately consumers, and will be implemented on the island of Ireland via the Integrated Single Electricity Market ("I-SEM"). The Single Electricity Market (“SEM”) Committee, comprised of both the Commission for Energy Regulation and Northern Ireland's Utility Regulator, published its final decision on the high level design...

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