COMPETITION

  • Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.10732 - EQT / BPEA)
  • Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.10205 - Orange / CDC / EDF / OC)
  • Commission fines the metal packaging producers Crown and Silgan €31.5 million in cartel settlement (AT.40522) - IP/22/4483
  • Commission clears acquisition of Sequello by PORR, Umdasch Group and Wacker Neuson (M.10618) - Midday Express
  • Commission authorises the acquisition of joint control of the ADIT group by Sagard and Bpifrance (M.10764)  - Midday Express
  • Belgium - The Belgian Competition Authority approves the acquisition of Petserco SA (“Tom&Co”) by Verlinvest SA
  • Germany - Bundeskartellamt - List of Notified Merger Projects
  • USA - Justice Department is investigating PGA Tour over potential antitrust violations in LIV Golf battle - WSJE

STATE AID

  • Russian invasion of Ukraine: Commission consults Member States on proposal to amend State aid Temporary Crisis Framework - IP/22/4469
  • Commission approves €500 million Hungarian scheme to support SMEs in context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine (SA.103315) - Midday Express
  • Commission approves Dutch scheme to support the filling of the gas storage facility Bergermeer in context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine - IP/22/4324

TRADE & CUSTOMS

  • Agenda for: Trade Policy Committee (Full Members) - 15 July 2022
  • Answer given by EVP Dombrovskis to a MEP written question - Supplementary question: Case AD684 - anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of ceramic tiles originating from India and Turkey
  • While politics fragments, Europe is falling into line on trade - A new consensus on strategic autonomy and state aid is taking shape - Financial Times

INTERNAL MARKET & INDUSTRY

  • Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/1199 of 11 July 2022 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/76 as regards harmonised standards for lifts with inclined travel path and correcting that Decision as regards harmonised standards for steel wire ropes
  • Public consultation - EU industrial production statistics (Prodcom) – product classification - Implementing regulation - Feedback period: 11 July 2022 - 08 August 2022
  • Innovation Fund: EU invests €1.8 billion in clean tech projects - IP/22/4402

FINANCIAL SERVICES

  • Call for feedback on the draft report by the Platform on Sustainable finance on minimum safeguards - 22 August 2022
  • Answer given by Ms McGuinness to a MEP written question - Exemptions for gambling services in the Member States
  • ESMA issues a third statement on the implementation of LEI requirements for third-country issuers under the SFTR reporting regime
  • ESMA has released an Opinion on the classification of third-country counterparties
  • ESMA identifies data reporting services providers to be supervised directly

AGRICULTURE & FISHERIES

  • Implementation of the new CAP - Approval of Strategic Plans

EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL POLICY

  • Employment: Commission report shows young people most affected by job losses due to economic impact of COVID-19 - IP/22/4482

ENERGY

  • Answer given by Ms Simson to a MEP written question - Capacity for ensuring the supply of gas to the Member States

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE

  • Agenda for: Working Party on International Environment Issues (Global) - 18 July 2022
  • Draft Decision No.1/2022 of the Joint Committee established by the Agreement between the European Union and the Swiss Confederation on the linking of their greenhouse gas emissions trading systems on amending Annexes III and IV to the Agreement - See the Council Decision on the Position of the EU
  • Answer given by Mr Sinkevičius to a MEP written question - The EU’s blue and green policies

HEALTH, FOOD & PRODUCT SAFETY

  • Health Union: HERA delivers list of top-3 health threats to prepare against - IP/22/4474
  • COVID-19 Contact tracing: country experiences and way forward - ECDC Report
  • EFSA - Problem Formulation for EFSA Scientific Assessments

TRANSPORT & MOBILITY

  • Airline slots: Commission proposes more flexible exceptions regime and targeted relief to airlines - IP/22/4473

DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET

  • Draft Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector and amending Directives (EU) 2019/1937 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Digital Markets Act) (first reading) - Adoption of the legislative act 

ECB, EURO & ECONOMY

  • Main Results of the Eurogroup - 11 July 2022, Remarks by Paschal Donohoe and by Commissioner Gentiloni 
  • Eurogroup statement on fiscal policy orientations for 2023 
  • NextGenerationEU: European Commission to transfer its bond issuance settlement to a Eurosystem-based infrastructure - IP/22/4384 & QaA
  • Business groups frustrated at UK-EU gridlock on post-Brexit trade - Ministerial level body overseeing 2020 agreement has not met for more than a year - Financial Times 

EXTERNAL RELATIONS

  • Tunisia: Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union
  • Cuba: Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on the first anniversary of the demonstrations of 11 and 12 July 2021 

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