COMPETITION

STATE AID

  • Action brought on 26 June 2023 - Kargins Vs. Commission - Case T-350/23
    Re: Article 29(2) of Council Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 - Article 107(1) or Article 108 TFEU - Article 267 TFEU - Latvia - infringement of a rule of law

TRADE & CUSTOMS

  • Agenda for: Working Party on Customs Union - 28 September 2025
  • Agenda for: Meeting of the Trade Policy Committee (Deputy Members) - 28 September 2025
  • Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials and amending Regulations (EU) 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, 2018/1724 and (EU) 2019/1020 - 2023/0079(COD) [Version for Trilogue on 20 September, 2023] - 19-09-2023 at 20h14
  • Answer given by Ms Kyriakidesl to a MEP written question - Signing of the EU-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
  • WTO - Members prepare for line-by-line negotiations on draft fisheries subsidies text in October
  • WTO - Dominican Republic appeals panel report regarding duties on steel bars from Costa Rica
  • WTO - Plastics Pollution Dialogue makes progress on draft MC13 statement
  • German carmakers ‘afraid’ of China retaliation, economy minister warns - Robert Habeck admits Franco-German divide on EU anti-subsidy probe against Chinese electric vehicles - Politico.eu
  • Brussels trade chief says China-EU ties ‘at a crossroads’ - Valdis Dombrovskis tells Chinese audience the two sides could ‘drift apart’ and Beijing must change its ways - Financial Times
  • South American leaders issue ultimatum on EU trade pact - Paraguay’s president says Mercosur will end talks with Brussels if deal is not finalised by December 6 - Financial Times

INTERNAL MARKET & INDUSTRY

  • Agenda for: Working Party on Competitiveness and Growth (Tourism) - 02 October 2025
  • Intellectual property: Council adopts two positions on designs protection legislation
  • Euro 7: Council adopts position on emissions from cars, vans, buses and trucks

CHEMICAL

  • Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bayerisches Verwaltungsgericht Regensburg (Germany) of 20 April 2023 - European Chemicals Agency Vs. Hallertauer Hopfenveredelungsges. m.b.H. - Case C-256/23
    Re: Article 94(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 - Article 299 TFEU - administrative charge
  • Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberverwaltungsgericht des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt (Germany) of 8 May 2023 - European Chemicals Agency Vs. B. GmbH - Case C-290/23
    Re:Article 11(3) and Article 13(4) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 340/2008 - Article 299 of the TFEU - ECHA - Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006

TAXATION

  • Agenda for: Working Party on Tax Questions (Indirect Taxation - VAT) - 09 October 2025
  • Position on behalf of the European Union and its Member States on tax cooperation at the United Nations - Approval

EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL POLICY

  • EPSCO Council on 9 October 2023.
    - Draft Council Conclusions on Measures to ensure equal access for Roma to adequate and desegregated housing, and to address segregated settlements - Approval
    - European Semester 2023: Impact of new technologies on labour: Towards a just digital transition - Policy debate
    - Council Decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States - Adoption
    - Draft Council Conclusions on mental health and precarious work - Approval
    - Draft Council Conclusions on Social Protection for the self-employed - Approval
    - Consolidation and strengthening of the European social protection systems - Policy debate
    - Draft Council Conclusions on Digitalisation in social security coordination, to facilitate the exercise of social security rights of citizens in the EU and alleviate the administrative burden on service providers abroad
  • Sport: Commission launches the 2023 European Week of Sport focusing on involvement, inclusion and innovation - Midday Express

AGRICULTURE & FISHERIES

  • Agenda for: Meeting of the Standing Forestry Committee - 13 October 2023
  • Council Decision (EU) 2023/1977 of 18 September 2023 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Council of Members of the International Olive Council as regards the conditions for the accession of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the International Agreement on Olive Oil and Table Olives, 2015
  • EU Organic Day: Highlighting excellence across the organic value chain through the second EU Organic Awards - Midday Express

ENERGY

  • Minutes of the First meeting of the sub-group for industrial gas consumers - 18 September 2023
  • Draft Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2018/2001, Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 and Directive 98/70/EC as regards the promotion of energy from renewable sources, and repealing Council Directive (EU) 2015/652 (first reading) - Adoption of the legislative act = Statements
  • InvestEU: Up to €1.7 billion financing from the European Investment Bank to construct new solar power plants in Spain, Italy and Portugal
  • Top EU energy official says US gas will be needed for decades - Bloc will have a ‘need for American energy’ says Ditte Juul Jørgensen - Financial Times

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE

  • Agenda for: Working Party on the Environment - 27 September 2023
  • Agenda for: Working Party on the Environment - 26, 27, 28 & 29 September 2023
  • Agenda for: 19th Meeting of the CEG/MSP on Protecting and Restoring the World’s Forests, including the EU Timber Regulation and the FLEGT Regulation - 28 September 2023
  • Agenda & Working Documents for: 18th Meeting of the CEG/MSP on Protecting and Restoring the World’s Forests, including the EU Timber Regulation and the FLEGT Regulation - 27 September 2023
  • Council Decision (EU) 2023/1974 of 18 September 2023 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction
  • EU Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe': €90 million for 17 new projects to support healthy soils - IP/23/ 4564
  • Protecting environment and health: Commission adopts measures to restrict intentionally added microplastics - IP/23/4581, QaA, & Regulation

HEALTH, FOOD & PRODUCT SAFETY

  • Protection of workers from asbestos at work - See the EP Briefing
  • Health-related measures in the national recovery and resilience plans - See the EP Briefing
  • EFSA - Protocol for the Scientific Opinion on the evaluation of the safety in use of plant preparations containing berberine
  • EFSA - Protocol for the Scientific Opinion on the evaluation of the safety in use of hydroxycitric acid and plant preparations containing hydroxycitric acid
  • EFSA - Protocol for the Scientific Opinion on the evaluation of the safety in use of preparations from the fruits of sweet and bitter fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill. and Foeniculum piperitum (Ucria) C.Presl)
  • EFSA - Safety of 3′‐sialyllactose (3′‐SL) sodium salt produced by a derivative strain (Escherichia coli NEO3) of E. coli W (ATCC 9637) as a Novel Food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283

DIGITAL & INFORMATION SOCIETY 

  • The market players’ views on international submarine connectivity in the EU - see Berec Statement

DATA PRIVACY & CYBERSECURITY

  • Agenda for: Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues - 25 September 2025
  • Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down additional procedural rules relating to the enforcement of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 - Joint Opinion of the European Data Protection Board and European Data Protection Supervisor
  • Draft opinion by MEP Dragoş Tudorache Laying down measures to strengthen solidarity and capacities in the Union to detect, prepare for and respond to cybersecurity threats and incidents  
  • European strategy for data: Data Governance Act becomes applicable  - Midday Express

TRANSPORT & MOBILITY

  • Intelligent road transport systems - See the EP Briefing

AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY & JUSTICE

  • Migration management: Vice-President Schinas in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea and Senegal  - Midday Express

ECB, EURO & ECONOMY

  • InvestEU: Up to €1.7 billion financing from the European Investment Bank to construct new solar power plants in Spain, Italy and Portugal - IP/23/4604
  • The euro area labour force: recent developments and drivers - ECB Economic Bulletin - 6/2023 

FUTUTRE OF EUROPE

  • Agenda for: Meeting of the Coreper (Part.1 & Part.2) - 27, 28, 29 September & 02 October 2023
  • The European Council establishes the composition of the European Parliament

EXTERNAL RELATIONS

  • Action brought on 15 August 2023 - HX Vs. Council - Case T-502/23
    Re: annulment of Council Decision (CFSP) 2023/1035 and of Regulation (EU) 2023/1027 - restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria
  • European Peace Facility: Council adopts an assistance measure in support of Beninese Armed Forces
  • Pakistan: EU releases €1 million in humanitarian aid to respond to monsoon floods - Midday Express
  • A multi-speed Europe holds the key to EU enlargement - A Franco-German report proposes four overlapping circles from an inner core to the new European Political Community - Financial Times
  • EU faces ‘divisive’ reforms to integrate with Ukraine, Barroso warns - European Commission ex-president José Manuel Barroso warns against ‘risky business’ of treaty change - Financial Times

    EU/UK RELATIONS
  • Revised Agenda for: Working Party on the United Kingdom - 25 September 2023

    RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE
  • Action brought on 9 August 2023 - Plahotniuc Vs. Council - Case T-480/23
    Re: annulment pursuant to Article 263 TFEU, Decision (CFSP) 2023/1047 and Regulation (EU) 2023/1045 - restrictive measures in view of actions destabilising the Republic of Moldova

 

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