EU CORONAVIRUS RESPONSES
HEALTH
- Data on the daily number of new reported COVID-19 cases and deaths by EU/EEA country - ECDC
- Data on COVID-19 vaccination in the EU/EEA - ECDC
STATE AID
- Commission approves €200 million Italian scheme to support companies active in the tourist-accommodation sector in the context of the coronavirus outbreak (SA.64446) - Midday Express
- Commission approves €10 million Slovenian scheme to support companies active in certain tourism sectors affected by the coronavirus outbreak (SA.64421) - Midday Express
TRAVEL
- EU Digital COVID Certificate: Commission adopts equivalence decisions for Albania (2021/1477), Andorra (2021/1476), Faroe Islands (2021/1478), Israel (2021/1482), Monaco (2021/1479), Morocco (2021/1481) and Panama (2021/1480) - Midday Express
COMPETITION
- Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.10261 - USTC/CM Biomass Partners)
- Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.10380 - Hg/TA/ Insightsoftware)
- Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.10232 - Brose/Sitech)
- Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.10421 - Primonial/Société Générale/OPG Window)
- Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.10441 - Bridgepoint/FFL/ACT)
- Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.9987 - NVIDIA/Arm)
- Commission clears acquisition of joint control over Global Partnership for Ethiopia by the Vodafone Group, Safaricom and Sumitomo (M.10244) - Midday Express
- France - The Competition Authority opens an in-depth investigation into the takeover of Conforama France by Mobilux (BUT)
- Germany - Bundeskartellamt clears plans by Lensing Media and Funke Mediengruppe to end their joint advertising newspaper activities
- Germany - Bundeskartellamt clears the acquisition of the Kreis-Anzeiger by the Ippen media group
STATE AID
- Judgment of the General Court of 15 September 2021 in Case T‑24/19, INC SpA, Consorzio Stabile Sis SCpA Vs. European Commission,
Re: State aid - Italian motorways - Prolongation of concessions for the execution of works - Services of general economic interest - Cap on toll charges - Decision not to raise any objections - Article 106(2) TFEU - Actions brought by competitors of the beneficiary - Abandonment by the Member State of the plan to grant aid - Plan not capable of being implemented as approved - Annulment not procuring any advantage to the applicants - No longer any legal interest in bringing proceedings - No need to adjudicate - ESA approves production grant scheme for private media outlets in Iceland
TRADE & CUSTOMS
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1474 of 14 September 2021 extending the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2384 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/271 on imports of certain aluminium foil originating in the People’s Republic of China to imports of certain aluminium foil consigned from Thailand, whether declared as originating in Thailand or not
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1475 of 14 September 2021 extending the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/915 on imports of certain aluminium foil in rolls originating in the People’s Republic of China to imports of certain aluminium foil in rolls consigned from Thailand, whether declared as originating in Thailand or not
INTERNAL MARKET & INDUSTRY
- Judgment of the Court of 15 September 2021 in Case T-127/20, French Republic, supported by Federal Republic of Germany Vs. European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), supported by Kemira Oyj, Grace Silica GmbH
Re: REACH - Evaluation of substances - Aluminium chloride - Basic aluminium chloride - Aluminium sulphate - Decisions of ECHA requesting additional information - Article 46(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 - Action brought before the Board of Appeal - Plurality of grounds on which the decision of the Board of Appeal is based - Grounds capable of justifying the decision - Inoperative nature of pleas in law directed against the other grounds - Agenda for: Committee on market surveillance and compliance of products of 17 September 2021
- Agenda for: Technical Committee - Motor Vehicles of 30 September 2021
FINANCIAL SERVICES
- Agenda for: Working Party on financial services and the banking union (financial services) - anti money laundering - Attachés + experts of 28 & 29 September 2021
- EBA publishes revised guidelines on the stress tests of deposit guarantee schemes (DGSs)
ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE
- Agenda for: Working Party on International Environment Issues (UNECE Aarhus) of 20 September 2021
- Agenda for: Working Party on International Environment Issues (Global) of 23 September 2021
- Investment Plan for Europe supports new loans for green SMEs in Sweden and Finland - IP/21/4742
HEALTH, FOOD & PRODUCT SAFETY
- EFSA - Pest survey card on Ceratocystis platani
- EFSA - Modification of the existing MRLs for proquinazid in blueberries and cranberries
- Poliomyelitis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2018 - Surveillance report - 14 Sep 2021
- Administrative decision on Rules governing the MS-track of the ECDC Fellowship Programme, field epidemiology path (EPIET) and public health microbiology path (EUPHEM)
DATA PRIVACY & CYBERSECURITY
- Agenda for: Horizontal Working Party on cyber issues of 17 September 2021
- Agenda for: Horizontal Working Party on cyber issues (attachés format) of 17 September 2021
ECB, EURO & ECONOMY
- NextGenerationEU: Fourth bond issuance maintains strong momentum for EU borrowing for recovery - IP/21/4707
- NextGenerationEU: European Commission successfully raises €5 billion in first EU-Bills auction
FUTURE OF EUROPE
- State of the Union: Commission proposes a Path to the Digital Decade to deliver the EU's digital transformation by 2030 - IP/21/4630, QaA, Factsheet & Address by President von der Leyen
- New European Bauhaus: new actions and funding to link sustainability to style and inclusion - IP/21/4626, QaA & Communication
- Annex 1 – Report on the co-design phase
- Annex 2 – Mobilising EU programmes
- Annex 3 – The New European Bauhaus policy ecosystem - 6th revised "List of meetings" taking place between 1 and 30 September 2021
- Legislative programming - Exchange of views
EXTERNAL RELATIONS
- EU Consolidated list of financial sanctions as 14 September 2021
