Harvey Pitt, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission SECC), recently voiced "considerable concern" about the extraterritorial impact of the directive.
But Mr Verheugen is more interested in the impact of the directive on the health of European business.
The full impact of the directive - and the savings expected to be made - are expected to be revealed on 20 November.
According to the first results, the impact of the directive, up to reasonable prices, may be summed up in a minor reduction of water use associated with a sharp decrease of farm income and a significant reduction of employment.
Concerns have been raised by interested organizations and institutions regarding the potential for negative impact of the Directive on non-commercial European clinical research.
In line with the results of the pilot study, 70% of respondents indicated that they perceived the overall impact of the Directive to be negative, 20% positive, 3% reported no change and the remainder expressed no opinion.
The results indicated that the majority of respondents perceived the impact of the Directive to be negative (75%), although a minority reported that it had made no difference or had a positive effect on the implementation of prospective clinical trials.
The predominant view is that the net impact of the Directive has been to increase the administrative burden associated with the competent authority and ethical clearances, in particular for multinational trials.
The aim of the research presented here was to examine researcher concerns and perceptions regarding the impact of the Directive on academic clinical trials in the area of haematopoietic SCT.
Furthermore, we have studied the impact of OpenACC directives on the energy efficiency of high-performance applications.
