COMPETITION
- Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.9594 — CMA CGM/CIMC Neocontainer /JV)
- Initiation of proceedings (Case M.9409 — Aurubis/Metallo Group Holding)
- The Netherlands - ACM clears acquisition of Dutch bookstore chain Bruna by rival chain AKO’s parent company
STATE AID
- Commission consults on revised EU Emission Trading System state aid guidelines - See the Communication, the Report, the Explanatory Note & the FactSheet
- Commission finds that sale of Piraeus Bank's Bulgarian subsidiary to Eurobank did not breach EU State aid rules - SA.53105 - Midday Express
TRADE & CUSTOMS
- Agenda for: Commission Expert Group on Trade and Sustainable Development of 22 January 2020
- International trade agreements – enforcing the EU’s rights in dispute settlements - Feedback period 09.01.2020 - 05.03.2020
- Trade/WTO: EU, U.S. and Japan agree on new ways to strengthen global rules on industrial subsidies - See the Statement - Financial Times
TAXATION
- Agenda for: Working Party on Tax Questions (Indirect Taxation - VAT) of 30 January 2020
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/21 of 14 January 2020 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 79/2012 laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Council Regulation (EU) No 904/2010 concerning administrative cooperationand combating fraud in the field of value added tax
AGRICULTURE & FISHERIES
- Draft - Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) …/... of 13.1.2020 amending Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards certain detailed production rules for organic products
ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE
- Financing the green transition: The European Green Deal Investment Plan and Just Transition Mechanism - See the Memo, the Communication, the Proposal, the Amendments
- Plenary remarks by Executive Vice-Presidents Timmermans and Dombrovskis on the European Green Deal Investment Plan and the Just Transition Mechanism
- EU warned of ‘tectonic’ shift as economy goes green - Citizens unprepared for impact of carbon neutrality drive, says Frans Timmermans - Financial Times
HEALTH, FOOD & PRODUCT SAFETY
- Draft implementing regulation - Plant pests – checks on imported plants (updated rules) - Feedback period 13.01.2020 - 10.02.2020
- Final 2019 Joint Statements on healthcare on the EU Health Policy Platform
- Healthcare in cross-border regions by the European Regional and Local Health Authorities (EUREGHA)
- Improving access to healthcare for vulnerable and underserved groups by No Body Left Outside Platform (NLO)
- Improving INtegrated people-centered Solutions Health Care Solutions (INCASO) by Mattone Internazionale Salute Programme (ProMIS)
- Improving Organ Donation and Transplantation in the EU by the European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA)
DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET & INFORMATION SOCIETY
- Open platform and tools to facilitate the collaboration among Computer Security Incident Response Teams
- EU proposes single market for industrial data - Financial Times
AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY & JUSTICE
- Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona: the means and methods of combating terrorism must be compatible with the requirements of the rule of law (See CPR No.4/2020 - Opinion of the Advocate General in cases C-623/17,C-511/18,C-512/18,C-520/18 Privacy International )
- Rule of Law: European Commission asks the Court of Justice for interim measures regarding the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court in Poland - Midday Express
ECB, EURO & ECONOMY
- Commission adopts Opinion on Portugal's updated Draft Budgetary Plan
- Restructuring sovereign bonds: holdouts, haircuts and the effectiveness of CACs - ECB Working paper Series No.2366
FUTURE OF EUROPE & BREXIT
- Ilze Juhansone is appointed as the Commission's new Secretary-General today
- Barnier: Goods entering Northern Ireland from Britain will be checked after Brexit - EU Brexit negotiator contradicts statements by British PM Boris Johnson - Politico.eu
EXTERNAL RELATIONS
- High Representative/Vice-President Borrell in New Delhi for bilateral visit to India and to address the Raisina Dialogue - Midday Express
- The French, German and UK foreign ministers gave a statement on Iran not meeting nuclear deal commitments and referring this to the Dispute Resolution Mechanism - see the E3 foreign ministers' statement on the JCPoA, Speech by UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab
- UK, France and Germany raise heat on Iran over nuclear breach - Financial Times - Politico.eu
- Europe’s Iran gamble - The launch of the dispute procedure crystallises the threat of the nuclear deal’s demise - Financial Times
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