Europe Daily News, 30 October 2025

COMPETITION

• Judgment of the Court of 30 October 2025 in Case C‑2/23, FL und KM Baugesellschaft m.b.H. & Co. KG, S AG in the presence of: Zentrale Staatsanwaltschaft zur Verfolgung von Wirtschaftsstrafsachen und Korruption
  Re: Preliminary ruling - Competition - Article 101 TFEU - Practical effect - Directive 2014/104/EU - Rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the Member States and of the EU - Article 6(6) and (7) - Article 7(1) - Directive 2019/1/EU - Granting Member States' competition authorities the means to enforce competition rules more effectively and ensure the proper functioning of the internal market - Article 31(3) - Scope - Mechanism for administrative and judicial assistance between national authorities - Transfer of a file from a competition authority to an authority conducting a criminal investigation - Joinder to the file of a criminal investigation of statements made with a view to obtaining leniency and settlement proposals, as well as their annexes - Access to those documents by persons under investigation and other parties to such proceedings
• Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.12114 - TAI / Lgesmi / Green Metals Battery Innovations JV)
• Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.12140 - BC Partners / Biogaran)
• Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.12123 - Nordic Capital / Permira / Bavarian Nordic)
• Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.12109 - Bain Capital / Kohlberg / PCI Pharma Group)
• Commission clears creation of joint venture by AAR and Air France (M.11887) - Midday Express
• Commission clears creation of joint venture by AAR and Air France (M.11886) - Midday Express
• Spain - The CNMC investigates possible anti-competitive practices in the international moving sector in Spain
• EU to probe sale of Anglo’s nickel business to China-backed MMG - Transaction has attracted criticism from groups that say it will reinforce Beijing’s control of critical metals market - Financial Times

STATE AID

• Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 107 and 108 of the TFEU – Cases where the Commission raises no objections – SA.107691
• Commission Decision (EU) 2025/2178 of 28 April 2025 on the State aid SA.63203 (2024/C) (ex 2021/N) implemented by Germany for Condor Flugdienst GmbH
• Commission approves updated €50 billion Dutch State aid scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (SA.118519) - Midday Express

TRADE & CUSTOMS

• Judgment of the Court of 30 October 2025 in Case C‑348/24, Compañía de Distribución Integral Logista, SA Vs. Administración General del Estado
  Re: Preliminary ruling - Customs union - Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 - Community Customs Code - Customs warehousing procedure - Release for free circulation - Article 29 - Customs value of goods - Goods sold for export to the customs territory of the EU - Article 112(3) - Determination of the customs value - Article 214(1) - Time at which the customs value is to be determined - Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 - Article 97n(2) - Proof of origin of goods - Article 118(1) and (3) - Time limit for presenting proof of origin - Loss of preferential treatment - Validity of documents proving the origin of goods Article 147 - Successive sales
• Judgment of the Court of 30 October 2025 in Case C‑500/24, Grupo Massimo Dutti SA Vs. Administración General del Estado
  Re: Preliminary ruling - Customs union - Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 - Community Customs Code - Article 29 - Customs value of goods - Determination - Goods sold for export to the customs territory of the EU - Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 - Article 147 - Successive sales
• Agenda for: Fifth Meeting of the UK - EU Trade Specialised Committee on Goods - 06 November 2025
• Dispute over Spanish olives - EU can impose tariffs on Washington, according to WTO judge - See WT/DS577
• Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2283 opening and providing for the management of autonomous tariff quotas of the Union for certain agricultural and industrial products
• Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2278 suspending the Common Customs Tariff duties referred to in Article 56(2), point (c), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain agricultural and industrial products
• Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/2181 of 29 October 2025 amending Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards requirements for the import of used cooking oil (CN: 1518 00 95 - 3825 10 00)
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2173 of 29 October 2025 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/761 as regards proof of origin for certain tariff rate quotas in the poultry sector and as regards the information to be mentioned on digital certificates of origin

INTERNAL MARKET & INDUSTRY

• Agenda for: Working Party on Competitiveness and Growth (High Level) - 18 November 2025
• Europe and the curse of geography - A lack of rare earths is just one way in which nature disadvantages the continent - Financial Times

AUTOMOTIVE

• Answer given by Mr Hoekstra to a MEP written question - Withdrawal from the ban on the sale of cars with internal combustion engines
• Answer given by Mr Hoekstra to a MEP written question - Revision of Regulation (EU) 2023/851 and ban on combustion engines from 2035
• VW warns of €5bn tariff hit after first loss since Covid - Europe’s largest carmaker among hardest hit by Trump’s trade - Financial Times

FINANCE

• Commission adopts equivalence decision for New Zealand's financial benchmarks - Midday Express
• Commissioner Albuquerque in Moldova for high-level talks on accession process and financial sector reform - Midday Express

TAXATION

• Judgment of the Court of 30 October 2025 in Case C‑146/24 P, Fugro NV, Vs. Council of the European Union, supported by: European Commission
  Re: Appeal - Taxation - Combating of tax avoidance - Directive (EU) 2022/2523 - Global minimum level of taxation for multinational enterprise groups and large-scale domestic groups in the EU - Article 17 - International shipping income exclusion - Challenge to the scope of that exclusion - Admissibility - Article 263, 4th paragraph, TFEU - Locus standi - Lack of individual concern
• Opinion of Advocate General Martin y Pérez de Naclares of 29 October 2025 in Case T‑638/24; Finanzamt Österreich intervener: D GmbH
  Re: Reference for a preliminary ruling - Taxation - VAT - Directive 2006/112/EC - Article 20 - Intra-Community acquisitions of goods - Articles 62, 68 and 69 - Chargeable event and chargeability of VAT - Articles 40 and 41 - Determination of the place of intra-Community acquisitions of goods - Use of the tax identification number of the country of origin of the goods by the person acquiring the goods - Article 138 - Exempt intra-Community supplies - Article 203 - VAT incorrectly invoiced and paid in the same Member State - Adjustment of the invoice - Legal effects
• Opinion of Advocate General Brkan of 29 October 2025 in Case T‑653/24; Accorinvest, Société Générale SA Vs. Ministre de l’Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique
  Re: Reference for a preliminary ruling - Harmonisation of fiscal legislation - Excise duty - Directive 2008/118/EC - Electricity - Other indirect taxes - Passing on the tax to the consumer
• Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra hosts Implementation Dialogue on VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA)

AGRICULTURE & FISHERIES

• Commission proposes 2026 fishing opportunities for EU-managed stocks in the Atlantic and Skagerrak-Kattegat waters - Q&A and the Proposal
• EU agri-food exports increased in July 2025

EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL AFFAIRS

• Commission releases €8.5 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to support 5,800 dismissed workers in Sweden

ENERGY

• Commission Decision (EU) 2025/2204 of 24 October 2025 designating the European Coordinator for the Central- and South-East European energy interconnectivity and laying down the detailed arrangements for the performance of their mission and tasks
• Commissioners to discuss key international energy and environment issues at G7 Ministers' Meeting
• The integrated EU gas system has proven resilient, reconfiguring to align gas flows with shifting supply and demand - Acer
• Eurostat: Household gas prices fall 8.1% in the 1st half of 2025 & Household electricity prices in 1st half of 2025: -0.5%

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE

• Judgment of the Court of 29 October 2025 in Case T‑742/20 RENV, UPL Europe Ltd, Indofil Industries (Netherlands) BV, Vs. European Commission
  Plant protection products - Active substance mancozeb - Non-renewal of approval - Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 844/2012 - Procedure for assessing the application for renewal of approval of an active substance - Manifest error of assessment - Procedure for harmonised classification and labelling - Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008
  
• Agenda for: Working Party on International Environment Issues (Climate change) - 31 October 2025
• Agenda for: Working Party on International Environment Issues (UNECE and other regional issues) - 06 November 2025 
• Sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP 6) (Geneva, 3 to 7 November 2025) - First EU coordination

DIGITAL & INFORMATION SOCIETY

• Interplay between the AI Act and the EU digital legislative framework - Study for the EP ITRE committee

TRANSPORT & MOBILITY

• Commission adopts plan to complete Madrid–Lisbon high-speed connection by 2034
• EU/Ukraine: Solidarity Lanes: Latest figures – September 2025

AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY & JUSTICE

• Commission strengthens security cooperation with Western Balkans with new Joint Action Plan on Preventing and Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism - Midday Express
• DiscoverEU celebrates 40 years of Schengen with 40,000 tickets for young travellers

ECB, EURO & ECONOMY

• Commission greenlights Poland's third payment request for €6.2 billion under NextGenerationEU
• EU-North Macedonia 22nd Subcommittee on Economic and Financial Issues and Statistics
• Letter from Piero Cipollone to Aurore Lalucq, ECON Chair, on the next phase of the digital euro project
• ECB - Progress on the preparation phase of a digital euro - Closing progress report
• ECB - Eurosystem moving to next phase of digital euro project

EXTERNAL RELATIONS

• Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on Belarus’ hybrid actions at the EU external border
• EU Statement – UN General Assembly 3rd Committee: Interactive dialogue on human rights in the DPRK
• EU Statement – UN General Assembly 3rd Committee: Interactive dialogue on human rights in Somalia
• EU Statement – UN Open Briefing: UN Security council 1540 Committee