Europe Daily News, 02 May 2023

COMPETITION

• Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.11027 - HSBC / AXA / Intu Milton Keynes)
• Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11015 - Parks Bottom / Oxford / Accor / The Rimrock Resort Hotel)
• Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.10783 - EQT Future / AM Fresh / SNFL / IFG)

STATE AID

• Commission approves €1.47 billion Dutch schemes to reduce nitrogen deposition on nature conservation areas (SA.106555 and SA.106559) - IP/23/2507

TRADE & CUSTOMS

• Notice of the impending expiry of certain anti-dumping measures (Electric bicycles - The P.R of China - Anti-dumping duty - Regulation (EU) 2019/73 - 19.1.2024)
• Notice of the impending expiry of certain anti-subsidy measures (Electric bicycles - The P.R. of China - Countervailing duty - Regulation (EU) 2019/72 - 19.1.2024)
• Commission proposes to extend suspension of tariffs and quotas on imports from Moldova - IP/23/2561
• Joint Minutes - 16th EU-Mexico Joint Committee on Trade Issues - 16 February 2023
• Joint Minutes - 15th EU-Mexico Special Committee on Customs Cooperation and Rules of Origin - 03 October 2022 
• Minutes of the EU-Mexico Special Committee on TBT (Standards and Technical Regulations) - 13 October 2022 
• Minutes of the 13th EU-Mexico Committee Meeting of the Special Committee on SPS  - 17- 18 October 2022
• Minutes of the EU-Mexico Special Committee on Government Procurement - 12 October 2022
• Minutes of the EU - Mexico Special Committee on Intellectual Property - 11 October 2022
• Minutes of the EU-Mexico Committee on Spirits - 12 October 2022 
• WTO, FIFA event highlights role of football as a tool for trade and women’s empowerment
• WTO - Korea, US reach mutually agreed solution in large residential washers dispute

INTERNAL MARKET & INDUSTRY 

CHEMICAL

• Robust study summaries effectively support hazard assessment - ECHA/NR/23/13

FINANCIAL SERVICES

• Agenda for: The Financial Services Attachés will meet to prepare the 2nd trilogue related to MiFIR and MiFID proposals – 03 May 2023
• Capital Markets Union: EU renews commitment to integration and development of capital markets - Midday Express
• EBA updates data on deposit guarantee schemes across the European Economic Area
• ESMA recognises four new Third Country CCPs
• ESG fund downgrades in Europe look set to reverse - New guidance that means fund managers can rely on their own methodology is expected to add to confusion - Financial Times

EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL POLICY

• Informal meeting of employment and social affairs ministers, 3-4 May 2023
• VP Šuica and Commissioner Schmit participate in informal meeting of EU employment and social affairs ministers in Sweden
• EU Cohesion Policy: 2021-2027 programmes expected to create 1.3 million jobs in the EU - IP/23/2462
• Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council meeting on 16 May 2023
  - Reading and its importance for learning, equity and active participation in society - Policy debate
  - Ensuring respect for human rights in the organisation of major international sporting events - Policy debate
  - Ensuring the inclusion of young people in EU societies: Focusing on inclusion of young Ukrainians - Policy debate
  - Primary School as Whole-day School: A balanced, fair, efficient and sustainable education system - Information from the Croatian delegation
  - The situation of the cultural and creative sectors in Ukraine - Information from the Polish delegation 
  - Support to Ukrainian Cultural and Creative Sectors - Information from the Presidency
  - Towards a better protection of Europe’s cultural heritage - Information from the Romanian delegation

ENERGY

• Heat pumps – action plan to accelerate roll-out across the EU - Communication - Feedback period: 28 April 2023 - 26 May 2023
• ACER’s response to ENTSO-E’s public consultation on ERAA 2023 focuses on consistency

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE

• Agenda for: Working Party on the Environment - 02, 04 & 05 May 2023
• Agenda for: Working Party on International Environment Issues (Global) - 04 May 2023
• Mercury-added products - EU ban on export, import and manufacture - Delegated regulation - Feedback period: 28 April 2023 - 26 May 2023
• Commissioner Sinkevičius in Brazil and Costa Rica to discuss deforestation, circular economy and other climate and environment matters - Midday Express
• EU law to restore nature stokes debate that jobs will ‘go to China’ - Rewilding rules will affect wind farm investment, food production and housing, say opponents - Financial Times

HEALTH, FOOD & PRODUCT SAFETY

• Agenda for: Meeting of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed
  - Section "Animal nutrition" of 3-4 May 2023
  - Section "Phytopharmaceuticals- Pesticide residues" of 10-11 May 2023
• Minutes of the 49th meeting of the Independent Advisory Panel on characterising flavours in tobacco products - 14 March 2023
• EFSA - Nitrosamines in food raise a health concern

DIGITAL & INFORMATION SOCIETY

• Regulation on the European Media Freedom Act - Progress report & Policy debate
• Presentations of the Workshop "How to put data science to work for DSA and DMA enforcement?"
• Digital Markets Act: rules for digital gatekeepers to ensure open markets start to apply - Midday Express
• EU and US warn Malaysia of ‘national security’ risk in Huawei’s bid for 5G role - Kuala Lumpur’s review of tender tests ability to juggle relations with the west and China - Financial Times

DATA PRIVACY & CYBERSECURITY

• EDPB launches Data Protection Guide for small business

TRANSPORT & MOBILITY

• Agenda for: Working Party on Transport - Intermodal Questions & Networks - 05 May 2023
• High-level agreements between the EU and Western Balkan partners (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, the Republic of North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) for the adaptation of indicative maps within the meaning of Article 49(6) of Regulation No 1315/2013 (the TEN-T Regulation) - Authorisation to sign a non-binding instrument

ECB, EURO & ECONOMY

• Minutes of the 18th Meeting of the Recovery & Resilience Facility Committee - 04 April 2023
• NextGenerationEU: European Commission endorses positive preliminary assessment of Luxembourg's request for €20.2 million disbursement under the Recovery and Resilience Facility - IP/23/2473 & QaA
• ECB - April 2023 euro area bank lending survey - see the Survey 1/2023
• ECB - Monetary developments in the euro area: March 2023

FUTURE OF EUROPE

• Agenda for: Meeting of the Coreper (Part.1 & Part.2) - 03 May 2023
• EU countries must work towards greater self-reliance - There will be no ‘strategic autonomy’ if poor nations continue to depend on their richer neighbours - Financial Times

EXTERNAL RELATIONS

• Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/890 of 28 April 2023 implementing Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria
• Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2023/892 of 28 April 2023 implementing Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria
• Council Regulation (EU) 2023/888 of 28 April 2023 concerning restrictive measures in view of actions destabilising the Republic of Moldova
• Council Decision (CFSP) 2023/891 of 28 April 2023 concerning restrictive measures in view of actions destabilising the Republic of Moldova
• EU allocates additional €25 million in humanitarian aid in Ethiopia and Kenya - IP/23/2503