The Agricultural Marketing Service has issued a proposed rule to implement an assessment (tax) of 7.5 cents per hundredweight of milk, or equivalent thereof, on imported dairy products, in order to fund promotion and research. This proposed action is pursuant to the 2002 and 2008 Farm Bills. Written comments are due by June 18, 2009. (AMS proposed rule, D/N DA-08-07: AMS-DA-8-050, FR Pub 05/19/09, available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-11492.pdf and AMS press release, dated 05/18/09, available here.)
GENEVA -- Consensus on a distributed, discoverable Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) identifier namespace is crucial to getting the most out of emergency messaging, an executive said. A June World Meteorological Organization workshop aims to debate ways to handle emergency messages internationally, executives said. The FCC has ordered CAP use by all U.S. communications providers.
GENEVA -- Consensus on a distributed, discoverable Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) identifier namespace is crucial to getting the most out of emergency messaging, an executive said. A June World Meteorological Organization workshop aims to debate ways to handle emergency messages internationally, executives said. The FCC has ordered CAP use by all U.S. communications providers.
The European Commission chose Inmarsat Ventures and Solaris Mobile Thursday to provide mobile satellite services across the continent. The services include high-speed Internet access, mobile TV and radio or emergency communications and will be provided over specifically reserved spectrum, the EC said. They'll offer innovative wireless communications to customers and businesses throughout Europe through portable terminals carried by people or mounted in cars and ships, it said. The services can also help close the digital divide by making high-speed Internet available in rural and remote areas, it said. EU nations must now ensure that operators have the right to use the radio frequencies set aside, as well as to run their respective mobile satellite systems, the EC said. Commercial services should launch by May 2011, it said.
The two Commissioners of the Consumer Product Safety Commission were not able to reach agreement on a request for an emergency stay of enforcement of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA1) "tracking label" requirement for children's products2 which is due to take effect August 1, 2009.
The Department of Homeland Security has recently released its fiscal year 2010 budget request which contains specific requests for U.S. Customs and Border Protection initiatives.
BRUSSELS -- The Internet of Things won’t fly without consumer confidence, said European Consumers’ Organization Legal Officer Emilie Barrau Friday at the IoT Europe 2009 conference. The only way networks that connect objects -- such as radio frequency identification tags and sensors -- and services to the Internet will become a reality is for it to become the “Internet of People,” she said.
According to Consumer Product Safety Commission sources, CPSC's Commissioners have delayed their vote on a request for an emergency stay of enforcement of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA1) "tracking label" requirement for children's products2.
On May 7, 2009, the President issued a notice continuing for one year the national emergency with respect to Syria that was originally declared in Executive Order 13338. (Notice, FR Pub 05/08/09, available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-11047.pdf)
The Senate Energy Committee’s short and sweet draft cybersecurity bill may need a few more pages to prevent overlapping agency roles in guarding against threats to the U.S. electric grid, a senator said after hearing testimony from regulators and industry witnesses at a Thursday hearing. The labyrinthine regulatory system for the grid -- with unique treatment for Hawaii, Alaska, metropolitan areas and possibly military installations -- requires a more nuanced framework than exists in the draft, witnesses said. “I do wonder if we're ready to do this next week,” said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., referring to the bill’s scheduled markup.