Policies to Encourage the Employment of People with Disabilities: Case of Romania

In the last decades, the employment of persons with disabilities became a priority for the social policy from many countries. Usually, such policies are oriented in two directions: to support the persons with disabilities seeking jobs and to provide for the employers who hire these persons some facilities that compensate certain supplementary costs. In the last years, Romania updated its legislation regarding the persons with disabilities, being offered some stimulants for their employment. In this paper we examine this legislation by comparing it with those from other countries. We also present the results of an inquiry among some managers from Romanian enterprises, who were interviewed about hiring people with disabilities

Emissions of unregulated pollutants from European gasoline and diesel passenger cars

Within the framework of the European Artemis project, the emissions of unregulated compounds were measured on new technology passenger cars. A sample of passenger cars was tested on a chassis dynamometer with constant volume sampling (CVS). The measurement of unregulated compounds comprised about 100 different VOC in the C2-C6 and C7-C15 range and carbonyl compounds. The sampling of these compounds was made using sorbent tubes followed by analysis with chromatography technology in liquid and gas phases. The influence of cold and warm starting conditions on the VOC composition was determined. The emission factors were determined and compared for either gasoline or diesel vehicles. The influence of the technology was evaluated and a first approach to understand the effect of recent technology on the ozone formation was developed. Keywords: VOC, carbonyl compounds, speciated emissions, driving cycle, emission factor