Europe Daily News, 02 May 2022

COMPETITION

• Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.10643 - Oracle / Cerner)
• Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.10695 - Apollo Management / Bank and Acquirers International Holding)
• Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.10689 - OCP Group / Koch Industries / JORF Fertilizer Company)
• Commission sends Statement of Objections to Apple over practices regarding Apple Pay (AT.40452) - IP/22/2764 & Remarks by EVP Vestager
• Commission clears acquisition of Reden Holding and Reden Holding 2020 by Macquarie and BCI (M.10707) - Midday Express
• Commission clears acquisition of joint control of CTW and RTW by Hapag-Lloyd AG and Eurogate (M.10522) - Midday Express
• Commission clears acquisition of Isoplus Entities and Isoplus JV by Egeria (M.10650) - Midday Express
• Report by MEP Andreas Schwab on "Competition policy - annual report 2021"
• Greece - The HCC approves Delivery Hero’s acquisition of four companies subject to commitments
• Portugal - AdC issues sanctioning decision for anticompetitive agreement in the labor market for the first time
• Portugal - Newpal notifies the acquisition of sole control over COPAM

STATE AID

• Commission approves €1.9 million Romanian aid measure to compensate TAROM for the damage suffered due to the coronavirus pandemic (SA.63360) - Midday Express
• Commission approves €200,000 Maltese scheme to support meat processing and marketing cooperatives affected by the coronavirus pandemic (SA.102010) - Midday Express 

TRADE & CUSTOMS

• Agenda for: Working Party on Meeting of the Trade Policy Committee (Generalised System of Preferences (GSP)) of 04 May 2022 

FINANCIAL SERVICES

• EBA launches discussion on the role of environmental risks in the prudential framework
• EBA proposes to simplify and improve the macroprudential framework
• ESMA advises the European Commission on certain aspects relating to retail investor protection
• ESMA publishes the annual transparency calculations for non-equity instruments and the quarterly systematic internaliser calculations 

AGRICULTURE & FISHERIES

• Recommendation of the AGRI committee for a decision to raise no objections to a delegated act (for announcement on Monday 2 May 2022)
• Executive summary of the evaluation of the CAP's impact on knowledge exchange and advisory activities 

ENERGY

• Energy situation in the EU in the context of the war in Ukraine - Exchange of views
• Joint Statement between the United States and the European Commission on European Energy Security
• EU steps up action on Russian oil sanctions - Berlin speeds up timetable for phasing out energy imports as Brussels tries to reach deal on toughest measures yet – Financial Times

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE

• Agenda for: Working Party on Environment of 02 & 03 May 2022
• Agenda for: Working Party on International Environment Group (CITES) of 11 May 2022
• 8th Round of Mutual Evaluations - 'The practical implementation and operation of European policies on preventing and combating Environmental Crime' - Follow-up to the Report on Bulgaria

HEALTH, FOOD & PRODUCT SAFETY

• Agenda for: 9th meeting of the Commission expert group on the Fight against Illicit Tobacco Trade (FITT) of 03 May 2022
• EFSA - OBEMIRISK‐Knowledge platform for assessing the risk of bisphenols on gut microbiota and its role in obesogenic phenotype: looking for biomarkers
• EFSA - Scientific Opinion Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of
  -  carrageenan for pets and other non‐food‐producing animals (Marinalg International)
  - acacia gum (gum Arabic) for all animal species (A.I.P.G. Association for International Promotion of Gums)
  - Enterococcus faecium NBIMCC 8270, Lactobacillus acidophilus NBIMCC 8242, Lactobacillus helveticus NBIMCC 8269, Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp. lactis NBIMCC 8250, L. delbrueckii ssp. bulgaricus NBIMCC 8244 and Streptococcus thermophilus NBIMCC 8253 (Probiotic Lactina®) for chickens for fattening and suckling and weaned rabbits (Lactina Ltd.)
  - guar gum for all animal species (A.I.P.G. Association for International Promotion of Gums)
  - lactic acid produced by Weizmannia coagulans (synonym Bacillus coagulans) DSM 32789 for all animal species except for fish (Jungbunzlauer SA) 

DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET

• Minutes of the Expert group on electronic commerce of 23 February 2022 - See the Presentation

DATA PRIVACY

• Agenda for: Horizontal Group on Cyber Issues of 03 May 2022of 04 May 2022
• Answer given by Mr Breton to a MEP written question - Allegations of illegal surveillance by the Swiss tech company Mitto  

ECB, EURO & ECONOMY

• EU cohesion policy: Commission adopts €1.3 billion Partnership Agreement with Austria for 2021-2027 - IP/22/2726
• NextGenerationEU: Commission receives Spain's second payment request for €12 billion under the Recovery and Resilience Facility - Midday Express
• NextGenerationEU: Commission receives payment request from Slovakia for €398.7 million payment under the Recovery and Resilience Facility - Midday Express

FUTURE OF EUROPE

• Future of Europe: Conference Plenary agrees final set of proposals - IP/22/2763
• Final Draft Agenda for the EP Plenary sittings of 2 - 5 May 2022
• Decisions of several EP committees to enter into inter-institutional negotiations (for announcement on Monday 2 May 2022)

EXTERNAL RELATIONS

• Commission statement on the resignation of Fabrice Leggeri
• HR/VP Josep Borrell travels to Panama to boost bilateral and multilateral ties - Midday Express
• Agenda for: Meeting of the Conventional Arms Exports subgroup (COARM) of the Working Party on Non-Proliferation and Arms Exports of 16 May 2022

RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE

• FAQs on trading related matters concerning sanctions adopted following Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine
• FAQs on humanitarian aid concerning sanctions adopted following Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine