Europe Daily News, 15 April 2022

COMPETITION

• Cyprus - Notification of a concentration concerning the acquisition of the share capital of companies Michael Arabatzis Food Industrial & Commercial Company and ALESIS Industrial and Commercial Confectionary Company by CVC Capital Partners SIVAC-FIS S.A., via Vivartia Co
• Cyprus - Notification of a concentration concerning the acquisition of My Mall Limassol by Dorsel (B.A.Z.) Ltd and Ari Real-Estate (Arena) Investments, via Limassol Mall Ltd
• Germany - Bundeskartellamt - List of Notified Merger Projects
• Romania - The Competition Council has cleared the transaction by which SFS International AG Group, Switzerland, has acquired Hoffmann SE, Germany, and its subsidiaries.
• UK - CMA - Anticipated acquisition by Ritchie Bros Auctioneers Incorporated of Euro Auctions Group - Decision on relevant merger situation and substantial lessening of competition

INTERNAL MARKET & INDUSTRY

• Agenda for: EP IMCO Committee of 20 & 21 April 2022
• Working Document on amending Directive 2009/138/EC as regards proportionality, quality of supervision, reporting, long-term guarantee measures, macro-prudential tools, sustainability risks, group and cross-border supervision, and on establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of insurance and reinsurance undertakings and amending Directives 2002/47/EC, 2004/25/EC, 2009/138/EC, (EU) 2017/1132 and Regulations (EU) No 1094/2010 and (EU) No 648/2012

FINANCIAL SERVICES

• Agenda for: Committee on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing of 28 April 2022 

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE

• Emissions monitoring campaign kicks off over the Baltic Sea using specially equipped drones - see EMSA paper
• Answer given by EVP Timmermans to a MEP written question - 115 deaths per day due to climate change 

HEALTH, FOOD & PRODUCT SAFETY

• Agenda for : Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed
  - Section "Novel Food and Toxicological Safety of the Food Chain" of 21 April 2022
  - Section "General food law" of 28 April 2022
  - Section "Plant Health" of 25-26 April 2022

EU RESPONSES TO COVID -19

• ECDC - Data for the maps in support of the Council Recommendation on a coordinated approach to the restriction of free movement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the EU/EEA
• ECDC - 14-day notification rate weighted by vaccine uptake, updated 14 April 2022 (colour-blind friendly)
• ECDC - Data on hospital and ICU admission rates and current occupancy for COVID-19
• ECDC - Data on the daily subnational 14-day notification rate of new COVID-19 cases
• ECDC - Data on the 14-day age-specific notification rate of new COVID-19 cases
• ECDC - Data on 14-day notification rate of new COVID-19 cases and deaths
• ECDC - Data on SARS-CoV-2 variants in the EU/EEA

TRANSPORT & MOBILITY

• Minutes of the 81st meeting of the Single Sky Committee (SSC) of 23 March 2022
• Minutes of the Meeting of the Connecting Europe Facility Transport Committee (CEF) of 07 April 2022
• Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure, and repealing Directive 2014/94/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council - See Draft Report of MEP Ismail Ertug, Amendments 132-392, 393-809 & 810-1175
• Fossil-free heating and cooling: Act!onHeat Support Facility opens first call for applications

DATA PRIVACY & CYBERSECURITY

• UK - Google revises its approach to cookies consent - 14 April 2022

ECB, EURO & ECONOMY

• Main findings from the ECB’s recent contacts with non-financial companies - Economic Bulletin Issue 3, 2022
• Results of the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters for the second quarter of 2022
• ECB - Combined monetary policy decisions and statement - 14 April 2022