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On Monday, June 16 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s Export Credit Group will meet to discuss...
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Letters & statements
2014/06/10
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, Observatory on Debt in Globalization, , Re:Common, urgewald
2013/11/15
Issue: European Union
Member: FERN
November 14, 2013
ECA Watch has prepared this ‘shadow report’ — with the support of other civil society groups — in order to assess current ECA practice in relation to issues such as transparency, ...
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Letters & statements
2013/07/17
Issue: European Union, Human Rights
(Brussels, 29 June 2011)A press release from ECA-Wach, Amnesty International and Eurodad. It welcomes EU permanent representatives' endorsement of the European Parliament’s proposal to make national export credit agencies (ECAs) more accountable for the support they give companies...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
Issue: European Union
Member: FERN
(August 23, 2009) Liberalising investments with the aim of opening markets appears to be incompatible with sustainable development of resource-based activities. FERN has therefore published a briefing note, “From Rome to Lisbon,” a guide to the EU’s investment strategy. The guide explores...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: FERN
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/03/16
Issue: European Union, Transparency
Member: FERN
This briefing note from 2004 was published by FERN.
Covers transparency, the Aarhus Convention. and the Directive on Public Access to environmental information.
2013/02/28
(4-Traders, Annecy, 30 January 2013) The EFTA Surveillance Authority has adopted new guidelines for the assessment of state aid in the context of short-term export-credit insurance. The new guidelines are based on experience gained in applying the previous... more
Issue: European Union
Letters & statements
2012/08/16
Country: Belgium
Issue: European Union, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, Observatory on Debt in Globalization, , Re:Common, urgewald
On 6 August 2012, ECA Watch and the European Coalition...
Letters & statements
2011/04/16
Country: Belgium
Issue: European Union, Human Rights, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, Observatory on Debt in Globalization, , Re:Common, urgewald
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2011/03/02
(Europa, Brussels, 23 February 2011) The European Commission has opened in-depth investigations to examine whether capital injections granted to Ducroire of Belgium and SACE BT of Italy by their respective State-owned parent entities, were in line with EU state aid rules.
ECAs: Ducroire/ Nationale Delcrederedienst, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: European Union
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2010/10/07
Issue: Climate Change, European Union
Member: FERN
Member States' Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) are undermining EU climate...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2010/10/07
Issue: BRIC countries, European Union, G20, OECD
Member: FERN
With the onset of the global financial...
2010/02/02
(ECA Watch Austria, Vienna, 12 February 2010) Turkish prime minister Erdogan announced that construction of the Ilisu dam would soon restart, despite a 3 February 2010 European Parliament resolution which demanded that Ilisu construction stop as part of Turkey's accession negotiations with the EU.
Country: Turkey
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: European Union, Large Dams
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2008/01/25
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, Transparency
Member: FERN
(January 25 2008) This new report explains how the Aarhus Convention...
Letters & statements
2007/11/29
Issue: Climate Change, European Union
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, Observatory on Debt in Globalization, , Re:Common, urgewald
Brussels, 29 November 2007 – With a resounding majority (540 MEPs in favour), the European Parliament today passed a resolution on trade and climate change which calls for “the discontinuation of public support, via export credit agencies and public investment banks, for fossil fuel...
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