EU CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE
HEALTH
- Agenda - 11th webinar organized by the “COVID-19 Clinical Management Support System” on “COVID-19 and Rare Liver diseases” (4 June 2020)
- Commission takes first step towards adoption of a Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe - Midday Express
- Coronavirus: Updating of the Biological Agents Directive to better protect the health and safety of workers - Midday Express
- Securing Europe's medical supply chains against future shocks - See CER Bulletin
STATE AID
- Commission approves €184 million Czech rent compensation scheme to support businesses affected by the coronavirus outbreak (SA.57464) - Midday Express
INTERNAL MARKET & INDUSTRY
- Information from the Commission concerning the non-application of certain provisions of Regulation (EU) 2020/698 by France, the Netherlands, Finland, Croatia, Lithuania and Slovakia
- Information from the Commission concerning the non-application of certain provisions of Regulation (EU) 2020/698 by Poland, Latvia, Hungary, Estonia, Spain, United Kingdom and Ireland
- The Right Kind of Standard to Fight a Pandemic – ECIPE Commentary-June 2020
AGRICULTURE
- Answer given by Mr Wojciechowski to a MEP written question - Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family farms
ECONOMY & BUDGETS
- Answer given by Mr Gentiloni to a MEP written question - Import duties and VAT exemption for victims of natural disasters
- EU budget for recovery : Increased funding to support EU farmers and fishermen towards a green transition/economy - Midday Express
- The recovery fund faces a tricky passage - See CER Bulletin
DATA PRIVACY & CYBERSECURITY
- The ENISA releases ten cyber hygiene tips to support SMEs in protecting their virtual assets against cyber attacks, during the COVID-19 pandemic
EXTERNAL RELATIONS
- Trump's COVID-19 response is deepening the transatlantic rift - See CER Bulletin
COMPETITION
- Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.9757 – Providence/VOO/Brutélé)
- Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.9850 – EQT Fund management/Schülke & Mayr)
- Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.9851 – Naturgy/Sonatrach/BlackRock /Medgaz)
- Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.9782 – Experian/Bertelsmann/Informa)
- Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.9676 – Lov Group/Banijay/ESG)
- Commission clears acquisition of Mytex by IRPC and JPP (M.9834) - Midday Express
- Answer given by Ms Vestager to a MEP written question - Market power issues related to dominant platforms and their app stores
- Proposal for a regulation - New competition tool
- Roadmap - Feedback period: 02 June 2020 - 30 June 2020
- Public consultation - Feedback period: 03 June 2020 - 08 September 2020 - Austria - Applications for findings brought against two musical instrument makers for price fixing
- Bulgaria - Temporary derogation from the rules of Art. 101 of the TFEU for participants in the milk and milk products, potatoes and live plants sectors
- Poland - Nord Stream 2 - President of The Office of Competition and Consumer Protection may impose a EUR 50 million fine on Gazprom
- UK - CMA to refer TVS Europe Distribution / 3G Truck & Trailer Parts merger unless undertakings in lieu offered
STATE AID
- EU Ombudsmann - The Commission’s handling of a state aid complaint concerning the ‘Elbtower’ building in Hamburg
- EU seeks to curb state-backed foreign rivals - Push to rein in unfair competition from China comes at sensitive time for Brussels’ relations with Beijing - Financial Times
TRADE & CUSTOMS
- Draft act - Delegated Regulation - Update to the list of projects or programmes of Union interest annexed to the FDI Screening Regulation - Feedback period: 03 June 2020 - 01 July 2020
- Commission reports on latest negotiating round with Australia
- Highlights - INTA discussed future of international trade, grandfathering regulation, enforcement
- Economic assessment of Carbon Leakage and Carbon Border Adjustment - Briefing for the EP INTA Committee
- Trade Related Aspects of a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. A Legal Assessment - Briefing for the EP INTA Committee
- Political Assessment of Possible Reactions of EU Main Trading Partners to EU Border Carbon Measures - Briefing for the EP INTA Committee
- Opinion of the EP INTA Committee for the ENVI Committee on shortage of medicines – how to address an emerging problem
- Answer given by Ms Kyriakides to a MEP written question - CETA and the lowering of European food safety standards
- US takes aim at digital services taxes in UK and EU - Trump administration expands probe that led to tariff threat against France last year - Financial Times (See USTR Statement)
INTERNAL MARKET & INDUSTRY
- Agenda for: Working Party on Competitiveness and Growth (Industry & Internal Market) of 05 June 2020
- Join us online to discuss safer chemicals - ECHA/NR/20/16
FINANCIAL SERVICES
- EBA announces timing for publication of its 2020 Spring EU-wide transparency exercise
TAXATION
- Taxation: Council approves conclusions on future administrative cooperation and excise duty on tobacco
- Council conclusions on the future evolution of administrative cooperation in the field of taxation in the EU
EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL POLICY
- Fair minimum wages: Commission launches second-stage consultation of social partners - IP/20/979
AGRICULTURE & FISHERIES
- Remarks by Commissioner Wojciechowski at the press conference on the Common Agricultural Policy in the next MFF
- QaA on the EU budget: the Common Agricultural Policy and Common Fisheries Policy
- Statement by Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius at the press conference on the Common Fisheries Policy in the next MFF -
- Opinon by Copa-Cogeca - EU poultry sector in the turmoil - twenty million chicks a week not being place on farms, while third country imports are on the rise !
HEALTH, FOOD & PRODUCT SAFETY
- Draft - Commission Regulation (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annexes II, III and IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for 1,4 diaminobutane, 1-methylcyclopropene, ammonium acetate, bifenazate, chlorantraniliprole, chlormequat, cyprodinil, limestone, mandipropamid, pepper, pyridaben, repellants: blood meal, seaweed extracts and trimethylamine hydrochloride in or on certain products
- Draft - Commission Regulation EU) …/… of XXX amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for acequinocyl, cycloxydim, diclofop, fluopyram, ipconazole and terbuthylazine in or on certain products
- Draft - Commission Regulation refusing to authorise certain health claims made on foods, other than those referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children's development and health
- Roadmap - Communication - Pharmaceutical Strategy - Timely patient access to affordable medicines - Feedback period: 02 June 2020 - 07 July 2020
- ePrescription of Estonian citizens can be retrieved in pharmacies in Finland
- ePrescription of Portuguese citizens can be retrieved in pharmacies in Estonia
- EFSA - Safety and efficacy of montmorillonite‐illite (FIMIX 1g557) for all animal species
- EFSA - Safety and efficacy of APSA PHYTAFEED® (6‐phytase) as a feed additive for laying hens and other laying birds
- EFSA - Safety evaluation of the food enzyme with β‐glucanase and β‐xylanase activities from the Trichoderma reesei strain DP‐Nya67
- EFSA - Database on apple fruit pests of the EU to support pest risk assessments
- Most EU consumers open to eat more sustainably but face hurdles, new survey shows - See Beuc Statement & Report
TRANSPORT & MOBILITY
- Agenda of the 75th Single Sky Committee of 23 - 24 June 2020
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/736 of 2 June 2020 amending Regulation (EC) No 474/2006 as regards the list of air carriers banned from operating or subject to operational restrictions within the Union
DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET & INFORMATION SOCIETY
- DIGITALEUROPE contribution to TRIS notification 2020/65/D (German proposed law on combating right-wing extremism and hate crime)
BREXIT
- Business and public will struggle with parallel Covid-19 and Brexit messages - See the UK Report
- EU integration plans underline growing divergence with UK - Pandemic is putting the two sides on different paths – Financial Times
ECB, EURO & ECONOMY
- Communication & Staff Working Document from the Commission - Enhanced Surveillance update - Greece, May 2020
- Commission Recommendations for Council Recommendations on the National Reform Programmes 2020 to each Member State, delivering Council Opinions on the updated Stability or Convergence Programmes
- Statement by Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič at the press conference on sectoral MFF 2021–2027 proposal by the European Commission
- AML high risk third country list - Statement by Hungary
EXTERNAL RELATIONS
- Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/730 of 3 June 2020 implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1509 concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
- Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2020/733 of 2 June 2020 implementing Decision (CFSP) 2016/849 concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
- Council Decision (CFSP) 2020/732 of 2 June 2020 in support of the UN Secretary-General’s Mechanism for investigation of alleged use of chemical and biological or toxin weapons
- Yemen: EU allocates over €70 million to help most vulnerable population - IP/20/993
- Two years after the Velvet Revolution, Armenia needs the EU more than ever – See EPC Commentary – June 2020
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