EU CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE
HEALTH
- Flash report - Steering Group on Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (10 September 2020)
ECONOMY
- Speech by Fabio Panetta: Healing after the pandemic: supporting and sustaining the recovery
EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL POLICY
- Proposals for Council Implementing Decisions granting temporary support under Regulation (EU) 2020/672 to Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia to mitigate unemployment risks in the emergency following the COVID-19 outbreak - Adoption
AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY & JUSTICE
- COVID-19: both a challenge and an opportunity for democracy
COMPETITION
- Commission authorizes the transfer of certain assets of Parmalat to Lactalis Nestlé Produits Frais (M.9925) - Midday Express
- Commission clears acquisition of joint control over DOCU Nordic Group by SSCP Fourth Fund and TA Associates (M.9931) - Midday Express
- Poland - Forestry-services bid rigging in Poland comes under antitrust scrutiny
- UK - CMA is investigating the anticipated acquisition by Mitie Group PLC of Interservefm (Holdings) Ltd.
- UK - CMA serves initial enforcement order in Sonoco Products Company / Can Packaging SAS merger
- UK - CMA announces that Taboola/ Outbrain merger reference will be cancelled
- UK - CMA final report on Hunter Douglas / 247 Home Furnishings merger
- HM Treasury announces review of UK competition policy
TRADE & CUSTOMS
- Agenda for: Meeting of the Appeal Committee on 17 September 2020
- Trade-related agricultural issues - Presentation by the Commission - Exchange of views
- Explanatory Notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union (CN: 7210,7212 & 9610)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1279 of 9 September 2020 concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature (CN: 7117 19 00)
- EU/Canada: Joint Report - Meeting of Bilateral Dialogue of forest products - 28 May 2020
INTERNAL MARKET & INDUSTRY
- Agenda for: Working Party on Competitiveness and Growth (Industry) of 15 September 2020
- Agenda for: Council of the European Union (Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry, Research and Space)) of 29 September 2020 - "List A Items"
TAXATION
- Agenda for: 18th meeting of the Expert Group in the field of VAT- Administrative Cooperation of 08 October 2020
EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL POLICY
- Employment and Social Developments in Europe review: why social fairness and solidarity are more important than ever - IP/20/1635, see the Review
ENERGY
- Agenda for: Working Party on Energy of 17 September 2020
- Second negotiating round to modernise Energy Charter Treaty - see the Joint Communication
- Answer given by Ms Simson to a MEP written question - Termination of the Energy Charter Treaty
ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE
- Agenda for: Working Party on International Environment Issues (Basel) of 21 September 2020
- Agenda for: 90th Meeting of the Committee on "Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora" of 22 September 2020
- Agenda for: Commission expert group on the "Birds and Habitats" Directives of 22-23 October 2020
- UN Summit on Biodiversity: Leaders' Event for Nature and People - Authorisation to endorse the Leaders' Pledge for Nature on behalf of the European Union
- The EP’s carbon footprint: Towards carbon neutrality - Study for the EP ENVI Committee
- Answer given by Mr Sinkevičius to a MEP written question - Decline in pollinator populations
HEALTH, FOOD & PRODUCT SAFETY
- Agenda for: Meeting of the Standing Committee on "Veterinary Medicinal Products" of 30 September 2020
- Statement - 70th WHO Regional Committee for Europe: the Commission and WHO Europe strengthen partnership and health cooperation
- Answer given by Ms Kyriakides to a MEP written question - ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy
- Answer given by Ms Kyriakides to a MEP written question - Chicken meat industry
DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET & INFORMATION SOCIETY
- Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on a temporary derogation from certain provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the use of technologies by number-independent interpersonal communications service providers for the processing of personal and other data for the purpose of combatting child sexual abuse online
- The Court interprets, for the first time, the EU regulation enshrining ‘internet neutrality’ (See CPR Nº106/2020 - Judgment in Joined Cases C-807/18,C-39/19 - Telenor Magyarország)
- UK - CMA response to Commission consultations on Digital Services Act package and new competition tool
TRANSPORT & MOBILITY
- Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council empowering France to negotiate an agreement supplementing its existing bilateral Treaty with the United Kingdom concerning the construction and operation by private concessionaires of a Channel Fixed Link
- Cleaner cities for all: Commission launches European Mobility Week 2020 to promote zero-emission mobility
DATA PRIVACY & CYBERSECURITY
- EU Cyber Forum – Promoting a free, open, safe and secure cyberspace
- Speech by HR/VP Josep Borrell at the EU Cyber Forum Cyber diplomacy and shifting geopolitical landscapes
AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY & JUSTICE
- Agenda for: Meeting of the "Company Law and BRIS" Expert Group of 21 September 2020
- Answer given by Ms Johansson to a MEP written question - Repatriation of antiquities
ECONOMY
- Investment Plan in Poland: €20 million for affordable housing in Szczecin, Poland - IP/20/1652
BREXIT
- Brexit Britain in a preferential tangle - Small economies need binding multilateral rules overseen by a dynamic and effective organisation - Financial Times
- Germany has more pressing concerns than Brexit - There is a world of rogue powers with an animus against the EU to deal with first - Financial Times
EXTERNAL RELATIONS
- EU-China Leaders’ Meeting: Upholding EU values and interests at the highest level - Joint press release by President Michel, President von der Leyen and Chancellor Merkel
- Remarks by President Charles Michel after the EU-China leaders' meeting via video conference
- Role of Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean: Opening remarks by the HR/VP Josep Borrell at the EP plenary
- Afghanistan: Phone call between HR/VP Josep Borrell and President Ashraf Ghani
- EU Priorities for the 45th session of the Human Rights Council from an EU perspective
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