COMPETITION

TRADE & CUSTOMS

  • Agenda for: Working Party on Customs Union (Directors General of Customs) - 25 January 2023
  • Agenda for: 43rd Meeting of the Customs Expert Group - Origin - 25 January 2023
  • Agenda for: 36th meeting of the Customs Expert Group - Data Integration & Harmonization - 31 January 2023
  • Agenda for:114th meeting of the Customs Code Committee - General Customs Legislation Section - 18 January 2023
  • Minutes of: 16th Project Group Meeting on the Digitalisation of Cultural Goods - 06 December 2022
  • A dirigiste Europe gives free-trade Sweden a hospital pass - One of the EU’s most liberal governments is chairing an increasingly interventionist gang of member states - Financial Times
  • US lawmakers in Davos tell Europeans: America’s not protectionist - They’re trying to convince Brussels that Washington’s subsidy push won’t hurt European businesses - Politico.eu

INTERNAL MARKET & INDUSTRY

CHEMICAL

  • ECHA adds nine hazardous chemicals to Candidate List - ECHA/NR/23/02
  • ECHA receives PFASs restriction proposal from five national authorities - ECHA/NR/23/01

FINANCIAL SERVICES

  • Call for evidence - Late payments – update of EU rules - Proposal for a directive - Feedback period: 12 January 2023 - 09 February 2023
  • Netherlands: Rabobank gets EIB Group backing to issue €1 billion in new lending to Dutch small businesses and mid-caps
  • EIB successfully prices its second 5bn benchmark transaction of the week with a new 10y EARN

TAXATION

AGRICULTURE & FISHERIES

  • Answer given by Mr Wojciechowski to a MEP written question - Massive retail mark-ups on farm products

ENERGY

  • Agenda for: Energy Efficiency Directive Committee meeting - 1 February 2023
  • Answer given by Ms Simson to a MEP written question - German gas storage facility in Austria
  • ACER’s first new daily LNG price assessment report published
  • ACER Decision 02-2023 on the Nominated Electricity Market Operators proposal for the harmonised maximum and minimum clearing price methodology for the single intraday coupling
  • ACER Decision 01-2023 on the Nominated Electricity Market Operators proposal for the harmonised maximum and minimum clearing price methodology for the single day-ahead coupling
  • Ireland: €240 million financing facility secured by solar developer Power Capital Renewable Energy from an Eiffel Investment Group led set of investors to construct over 1.2 GW of solar assets and expand internationally

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE

  • Minutes of: Expert group on the implementation of the nitrates Directive - 15 December 2022
  • New EU environmental norms to make chemical and textile industry plants greener
    - Best available techniques (BAT) conclusions for common waste gas management and treatment systems in the chemical sector
    - Best available techniques (BAT) conclusions for the textiles industry
  • New European Bauhaus a major catalyst of the European Green Deal, funding to be scaled up further - IP/23/203
  • Answer given by Mr Sinkevicius to a MEP written question - The Commission’s response to Nord Stream explosions and methane leak
  • Answer given by EVP Timmermans to a MEP written question - The business airline Valljet is bypassing the European carbon market
  • Answer given by EVP Timmermans  to a MEP written question - Exemptions from the EU ETS for private jets and yachts
  • Electrical equipment - lead in polyvinyl chloride for sensors used in diagnostic medical devices (RoHS exemption) - Delegated directive - Feedback period: 16 January 2023 - 13 February 2023

HEALTH, FOOD & PRODUCT SAFETY

  • Answer given by Ms Kyriakides to a MEP written question - Mapping of sensitive areas in the proposed regulation on the sustainable use of pesticides

DIGITAL & INFORMATION SOCIETY

  • European Commission consults on future recommendation to combat piracy of live content - Feedback period: 13 January 2023 - 10 February 2023

DATA PRIVACY & CYBERSECURITY

  • Agenda for: 74th EDPB meeting - 17 January 2023

ECB, EURO & ECONOMY

FUTURE OF EUROPE

  • Agenda for: Meeting of the members of the Coreper (Rev. Part.2) - 18 January 2023
  • Remarks by President Charles Michel following his meeting with Prime Minister of Sweden, Ulf Kristersson

EXTERNAL RELATIONS

  • The Court annuls the Commission’s decision allowing Kosovo to participate in the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications - Berec (See CPR Nº 11/2023 - Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-632/20 P, Spain Vs. Commission)
  • Statement by the HR/VP Borrell on behalf of the EU on the alignment of certain third countries concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Mali
  • Declaration by the HR/VP Borrell on behalf of the EU on the alignment of certain third countries concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran - Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2022/2433 of 12 December 2022 implementing Decision 2011/235/CFSP
  • Statement by the HR/VP Borrell on behalf of the European Union on the alignment of certain third countries with Council Decision (CFSP) 2022/2431 of 12 December 2022 amending Decision (CFSP) 2016/849 concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  • Statement by the HR/VP Borrell on behalf of the European Union on the alignment of certain third countries with Council Decision (CFSP) 2022/2376 of 5 December 2022 amending Decision (CFSP) 2020/1999 concerning restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses
  • Statement by the HR/VP Borrell on behalf of the European Union on the alignment of certain third countries with Council Decision (CFSP) 2022/2186 of 8 November 2022 amending Decision (CFSP) 2019/1894 concerning restrictive measures in view of Turkey’s unauthorised drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Statement by the HR/VP Borrell on behalf of the European Union on the alignment of certain third countries with Council Decision (CFSP) 2022/2052 of 24 October 2022 amending Decision 2010/638/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against the Republic of Guinea
  • A New Agenda for EU relations with Latin America and the Caribbean - Joint communication - Feedback period: 12 January 2023 - 09 February 2023

EU/UK RELATIONS

  • Joint Statement by Vice-President Šefčovič and UK Foreign Secretary Cleverly following their video conference call today

RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE

  • Commission disburses first €3 billion to Ukraine of the up to €18 billion Macro-financial Assistance+ package - IP/23/228
  • Failure to expand the allied sanctions coalition must be addressed - Following successive sanctions packages against Russia, the EU must prioritize implementation by individual members and close third-country loopholes - Politico.eu
  • Russia reroutes arctic oil to China and India as result of EU sanctions - highnorthnews
  • Polish press reports on the possible 10th package of EU sanctions against Russia - euronews.com
  • Hawkish countries call for more EU sanctions against Russia - Tenth sanctions package would hit Belarus, Moscow’s ally, and Russia’s nuclear sector, say diplomats - Politico.eu

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