EU CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE
COMPETITION
- Communication from the Commission Temporary Framework for assessing antitrust issues related to business cooperation in response to situations of urgency stemming from the current COVID-19 outbreak
STATE AID
- Commission approves Italian guarantee scheme to support self-employed workers, SMEs and mid-caps affected by coronavirus outbreak - IP/20/656
- Commission approves Italian guarantee scheme to support the economy in coronavirus outbreak - IP/20/655
- Commission approves German guarantee scheme to stabilise trade credit insurance market in coronavirus outbreak - IP/20/653
- Commission approves amendments to previously approved German schemes to further support economy in coronavirus outbreak - IP/20/651
- Commission approves €10 billion French guarantee scheme to support domestic credit insurance market in coronavirus outbreak - IP/20/650
- Commission approves €3.3 billion Romanian scheme to support SMEs in coronavirus outbreak - IP/20//649
- Commission approves Belgian guarantee scheme mobilising €50 billion support for companies affected by coronavirus outbreak - IP/20/648
- Commission approves €455 million Swedish guarantee scheme to support airlines affected by coronavirus outbreak - IP/20//647
- Commission approves Belgian scheme deferring payment by Walloon airports of concession fees to mitigate economic impact of coronavirus outbreak - IP/20/645
- Commission approves €140 million Hungarian scheme to support economy in coronavirus outbreak - IP/20/629
- Commission approves €255 million Bulgarian guarantee scheme to support SMEs in coronavirus outbreak - IP/20/627
- Commission approves €20 million Portuguese credit line scheme to support fishery and aquaculture sector in coronavirus outbreak - IP/20/609
HEALTH
- Communication from the Commission - Guidelines on protection of health, repatriation and travel arrangements for seafarers, passengers and other persons on board ships
- Communication from the Commission Guidelines on the optimal and rational supply of medicines to avoid shortages during the COVID-19 outbreak
- Flash report -15th Health Security Committee on COVID-19 outbreak of 08 April 2020
CONSUMER PROTECTION
- MEPs to discuss how to better protect consumers in times of COVID-19
DIGITAL & INFORMATION SOCIETY
- Commission Recommendation (EU) 2020/518 of 8 April 2020 on a common Union toolbox for the use of technology and data to combat and exit from the COVID-19 crisis, in particular concerning mobile applications and the use of anonymised mobility data
- DIGITALEUROPE recommendations on health data-processing
ECONOMY
- Coronavirus: €2.7 billion from the EU budget to support the EU healthcare sector - Midday Express
- Statement by the President of the European Council Charles Michel following the agreement of the Eurogroup
- Europe's drive to save jobs risks fuelling north-south inequality - Financial Times
COMPETITION
- Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.9813 – Blackstone/IQSA Holdings)
- Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.9774 – Bain Capital Investors/Neuberger Berman/Engineering Ingegneria Informatica)
- Commission clears acquisition of van Wylick GmbH by Fyffes Limited (M.9746) - Midday Express
- Commission clears acquisition of joint control over Hotel Faro and Hotel Buenaventura by Apollo Capital Management and Lopesan Group (M.9675) - Midday Express
- Commission clears acquisition of joint control over SPSI Portugal by José de Mello Residências e Serviços and Ageas Portugal (M.9737) - Midday Express
- Answer given by Ms Vestager to a MEP written question - Do airlines comply with competition rules
- EU states should buy company stakes to repel China takeovers, says Vestager - Financial Times
- Germany - Bundeskartellamt - List of Notified Merger Projects
- Greece - Publication of Interim Report of Sector Inquiry into Basic consumer goods
- The Netherlands - ACM clears acquisition of publishing company Sanoma Media by rival publisher DPG Media
- Romania - The Competition Council authorized the transaction through which Euralis Semences Holding SAS intends to take over the activity of Caussade Semences Group.
TRADE & CUSTOMS
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/516 of 3 April 2020 concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature (CN: 8109 90 00)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/517 of 3 April 2020 concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature (CN: 6702 10 00)
- Negotiations of the Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement(EPCA) between the EU and the Kyrgyz Republic 2017-2019: Report
- The impact of Corona, trade negotiations of Indonesia - European Union disrupted - bilaterals.org
INTERNAL MARKET & INDUSTRY
- Agenda for: 3rd meeting of the Transitional Forum for European R&I Partnerships of 22 April 2020
- Decisions adopted by the European Commission by Written Procedure of 14 April 2020
- The White Paper on Artificial Intelligence - Briefing - EP ITRE Committee
ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE
- Commission Decision (EU) 2020/519 of 3 April 2020 on the sectoral reference document on best environmental management practices, sector environmental performance indicators and benchmarks of excellence for the waste management sector under Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009 on the voluntary participation by organisations in a Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS)
- Coronavirus: Commission presents guidelines on waste management in the coronavirus crisis - Midday Express
HEALTH, FOOD & PRODUCT SAFETY
- Bosnia and Herzegovina signs the Joint Procurement Agreement to procure medical countermeasures
- Rapid Alert System - Weekly Report - Report 15 (Published on: 10/04/2020)
DATA PRIVACY & CYBERSECURITY
- Answer given by Mr Reynders to a MEP written question - Use of codes of conduct within the General Data Protection Regulation
ECB, EURO & ECONOMY
- Interview of Luis de Guindos with La Vanguardia
- How the next euro-crisis could unfold - Financial Times
FUTURE OF EUROPE
- Revised Agenda for: Meeting of the Coreper (Part.1 & Part.2) of 14.4.2020
- COVID-19: Can the EU avoid an epidemic of authoritarianism? - see CER Insight
- Conference on EU future faces reset - Financial Times
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