EU Ministers responsible for the internal market and industry met in Brussels to hold three policy debates: on the future of EU competitiveness, the future of the state aid framework and SMEs reaping the benefits of the single market.
The assistance will contribute to strengthening North Macedonia’s resilience in a challenging economic context. The economy of North Macedonia has been significantly affected by the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and by the recent energy crisis, driven by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and North Macedonia’s high dependency on imports of fuel and electricity. These circumstances have contributed to the country’s sizeable financing gap.
The regulation of the European Parliament and the Council will apply to all batteries including all waste portable batteries, electric vehicle batteries, industrial batteries, starting, lightning and ignition (SLI) batteries (used mostly for vehicles and machinery) and batteries for light means of transport (e.g. electric bikes, e-mopeds, e-scooters).
Today, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. The decision concludes that the United States ensures an adequate level of protection – comparable to that of the European Union – for personal data transferred from the EU to US companies under the new framework. On the basis of the new adequacy decision, personal data can flow safely from the EU to US companies participating
The European Commission has adopted today the rules for implementing the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (‘FSR’). The Implementing Regulation details procedural aspects of the implementation of the FSR. It also contains notification forms for concentrations involving foreign financial contributions and for foreign financial contributions in public procurement procedures.
The beneficiaries will receive support via a variable premium contract of a duration ranging between 12 and 15 years. The payments that the beneficiaries receive will be adjusted based on the evolution of the relevant market prices (for example of electricity, gas orcarbon) over the lifetime of the support contract. Given the wide range of costs and therefore subsidy needs among the beneficiaries, price caps apply per technology to limit
Today, Vice-President Věra Jourová officially launched the negotiations aimed at the creation of the interinstitutional Ethics Body, following the publication of the Commission’s proposal. The meeting includes high level representatives from eight institutions. Their interinstitutional Ethics Body would set high standards strengthening the transparency and integrity of public EU officials.
The aid will take the form of an insurance against negative winter-summer gas price spreads, i.e. when market gas prices are higher in summer for buying and storing gas, compared to the winter when selling it. The aid will incentivise market participants to fill seasonal gas storages by covering (i) the costs of storing gas during summer for the winter season when the winter-summer gas spreads are too low to
The scheme, which will run until June 2026, aims to increase the share of renewable energy sources in the Spanish electricity system, decrease the deliberate reduction in renewable electricity generation at times of overproduction, and (support the secure operation of the Spanish electricity system.
The 2014 Guidelines on State aid to airports and airlines allow Member States to grant, subject to certain conditions, operating aid to regional airports with less than 3 million passengers a year, with a view to becoming cost-covering. The Guidelines set a ten-year transition period during which such aid can be declared compatible with the internal market. The transition period was set to expire on 4 April 2024.
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The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of iRobot by Amazon. The Commission is concerned that the transaction would allow Amazon to restrict competition in the market for robot vacuum cleaners (‘RVCs’) and to strengthen its position as online marketplace provider.
The electoral overhaul of the District Council reduces drastically the number of directly elected members to less than one-fifth. This severely weakens the ability of the people of Hong Kong to choose representatives overlooking district affairs. This decision follows the imposition of the National Security Law in 2020 and the overhaul of the elections’ rules for the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council in 2021.
Today, Croatia takes stock of its reconstruction efforts to recover from the damages following the devastating earthquakes of March and December 2020 in Zagreb, Petrinja and the Sisak Moslavina county. This recovery was supported by a total of €1 billion from the EU Solidarity Fund (EUSF), which was granted in two tranches in 2020 and 2021.
An international law enforcement operation supported by Europol has led to the dismantling of a Brazilian cartel flooding Europe with cocaine. A number of actions have been carried out over recent months in Brazil, Spain and Portugal to target the members of this highly professional criminal syndicate.
Between 10 and 17 June 2023 Europol coordinated EMPACT Joint Action Days (JADs) targeting human trafficking for labour exploitation purposes. The JADs were led by the Netherlands, and carried out by law enforcement and labour authorities from 31 countries with support from Eurojust, the European Labour Authority and Frontex.
Today, the Commission is proposing rules to make producers responsible for the full lifecycle of textile products and to support the sustainable management of textile waste across the EU. This initiative will accelerate the development of the separate collection, sorting, reuse and recycling sector for textiles in the EU, in line with the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles.
Today’s package includes a Communication examining the situation in the EU as a whole and 27 country chapters looking at significant developments in every Member State since July 2022. The report includes an assessment of last year’s recommendations and provides again specific recommendations to Member States.
A soil monitoring law will put the EU on a pathway to healthy soils by 2050, by gathering data on the health of soils and making it available to farmers and other soil managers. The law also makes sustainable soil management the norm and addresses situations of unacceptable health and environment risks due to soil contamination.
The modernised EU-Chile agreement has today taken a step towards ratification, with the Commission sending the Advanced Framework Agreement (AFA) and the Interim Trade Agreement (iTA) to the Council for authorising its signature. Once the Council gives its green light, the EU would sign the agreement with Chile.
Der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) hat entschieden, dass das Bundeskartellamt im Rahmen von kartellrechtlichen Abwägungsentscheidungen auch datenschutzrechtliche Bestimmungen berücksichtigen darf. Das Verfahren vor dem EuGH geht zurück auf die Entscheidung des Bundeskartellamtes in Sachen Meta (Facebook) aus 2019.
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