Januar 09. 2026

Europe Daily News, 09 January 2026

Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.12255 - EMK / Builtech Group)
Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.12240 - EVH GE / HSBC / SP 29)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.12222 - Covivio Group Group / CDC / JV)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.12199 - WH Group / Entities of the Wolf Group)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.12034 - Metinvest / ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Iasi)
Commission clears acquisition of RA Lumina by Axpo Italia and Canarbino (M.12211) - Midday Express
Commission publishes Foreign Subsidies Regulation Guidelines
Answer given by EVP Ribera to a MEP written question - Exclusion of port superstructures from the General Block Exemption Regulation
France - Conversational agents: the Autorité de la concurrence starts inquiries ex officio with a view to issuing an opinion
France - Purchasing groups: the Autorité de la concurrence launches, for the first time, a competitive assessment of the Aura and Concordis buying alliances
Anglo American, Teck merger heading for EU antitrust approval - The decision is due by February 3

Answer given by Mr Šefčovič to a MEP written question - The US customs measures for EU goods that are affecting Europe’s engineering sector
EU countries approve Mercosur trade deal after 25 years of talks - Latin America trade accord wins the required qualified majority, even as France, Poland, Austria, Ireland and Hungary express their opposition - Politico.eu
EU-China trade relations are in a deep freeze. They could be about to get even icier - There’s no prospect of a thaw ahead of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit to China next month - Politico.eu
Chinese car exports set to jump as domestic sales cool - Mexico, Middle East and parts of Europe are among the top markets, data shows - Financial Times

WTO

Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures - Subsidies - New and full notification pursuant to article XVI:1 of the GATT 1994 and article 25 of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures - European Union : Croatia - Addendum
Madagascar launches safeguard investigation on plastic pipes and tubes and accessories
Madagascar launches safeguard investigation on dry pastries and breakfast cereals
Türkiye launches safeguard investigation on polyethylene terephthalate resin
Türkiye launches safeguard investigation on other paper and paperboard
Türkiye launches safeguard investigation on terephthalic acid

Commission proposes to support over 3,400 dismissed workers in the car industry in Belgium with €7.5 million
Commissioner Kubilius to discuss Europe's security challenges with Nordic leaders in Sweden - Midday Express

CHEMICAL

Commission Regulation (EU) .../... of XXX amending Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards synthetic polymer microparticles

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/46 of 3 December 2025 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 to add Russia to the list of high-risk third countries with strategic deficiencies
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/83 of 4 December 2025 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 to add Bolivia and the British Virgin Islands to the list of high-risk third countries which have provided a written high-level political commitment to address the identified deficiencies and have developed an action plan with the FATF, and to remove Burkina Faso, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania from that list
UK to exclude financial services from push for closer EU alignment - City of London firms have been lobbying against a return to Brussels rules - Financial Times

EBA/ESA/ESMA

The EBA publishes its final draft technical standards to strengthen supervisory cooperation for third-country branches
The EBA publishes a Report on prudential consolidation and final Guidelines on ancillary services undertakings
The EBA publishes final draft technical standards on booking arrangements
ESAs publish joint Guidelines on ESG stress testing
ESMA - Report on the Principles on risk-based supervision
Principles for risk-based supervision: a critical pillar for ESMA’s simplification and burden reduction efforts

Agenda for: Working Party on Energy - 14 January 2026
Council Decision (EU) 2026/70 of 17 November 2025 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Ministerial Council of the Energy Community with regard to amendments to the Treaty establishing the Energy Community in order to reflect the evolution of Union environmental law
Commission notice on Guidelines on future proof network charges for reduced energy system costs
Commission notice on a Guidance on innovative technologies and forms of renewable energy deployment
Commission notice on a Guidance on the establishment of areas for grid and storage infrastructure necessary to integrate renewable energy into the electricity system in line with Article 15(e) of the Renewable Energy Directive

Agenda for: Working Party on the Environment - 13 January 2026
Agenda for: Meeting of the Committee on Waste and Packaging Waste & Single Use Plastics Directive - 16 January 2026
Minutes of the meeting on Ambient Air Quality Committee under Directive (EU) 2024/2881 on 03 December 2025
Europe goes ‘full blast’ on carbon capture but fears of ‘expensive distraction’ persist - Industrial groups say storage is only way to meet EU emissions targets for energy-intensive sectors - Financial Times

Agenda for: Working Party on Telecommunications & Information Society -15 January 2026
Answer given by Executive Vice-President Virkkunen to a MEP written question - Problems caused by online sales
Answer given by Executive Vice-President Virkkunen to a MEP written question - Use of recently submitted court case documents concerning big tech platform design as evidence of systemic risk under the Digital Services Act

Commissioner Brunner hosts Youth Policy Dialogue to discuss the future of the EU, migration and internal security priorities - Midday Express
OLAF investigation uncovered misuse of rural development funds in Hungary
34 arrests in Spain during action against the ‘Black Axe’ criminal organisation - Criminal network engaged in a multitude of criminal activities and present in dozens of countries - Europol

Agenda for: Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession to the EU - 13 January 2026
Guatemala: Council prolongs restrictive measures by a year
Egypt: press remarks by HR/VP Kaja Kallas following the meeting with Egyptian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates, Mr Badr Abdelatty

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