Our IEU MONITORING headlines today:
TRANSPARENCY
- EU Council adopts new rules making registration of interest representatives mandatory
CHEMICAL STRATEGY
- CoR: EU chemicals strategy should simplify procedures and complement existing legislation to make it more effective
TITANIUM DIOXIDE
- EFSA: Titanium dioxide: E171 no longer considered safe when used as a food additive
FOOD CONTACT MATERIAL
- EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Plastic materials and items intended to come into contact with food – P-001738/2021(ASW)
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
- Schulze: Mehrweg soll neuer Standard für To-go-Verpackungen werden – Bundestag beschließt Novelle des Verpackungsgesetzes
- VKU zur Verabschiedung des Verpackungsgesetzes: Erste richtige und wichtige Maßnahmen werden hier verpackt
AQUACULTURE
- EU aquaculture report: sales value goes up while the volume remains steady – EU Commission Joint Research Centre
SPECIAL: COVID-19
- WHO chief hails ‘monumental moment’ in COVID fight, as US throws support behind vaccine patent waiver
- Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on the US announcement regarding Covid-19 vaccines
- Von der Leyen: EU ist offen für Gespräche über Impfstoffpatente – exportiert aber schon so viel Impfstoff wie sonst keine Weltregion
- EU’s local and regional leaders call for patent waiver on COVID-19 vaccines
- Statement Sven Simon (EVP/CDU) zum Patentschutz bei Impfstoffen
- S&Ds: Vaccine is a public good and Commission should lift all property rights barriers
- Die Grünen/EFA zu Covid19-Patenten: EU-Kommission muss dem Vorbild der USA folgen
- GUE/NGL: EU Commission dithers over vaccine patents as inaction continues to kill
- Coronavirus: EU Commission proposes EU Strategy for the development and availability of therapeutics
- Remarks by EU Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the press conference on the EU Strategy for the development and availability of therapeutics
- „Entwicklung von Medikamenten europäisch fördern“ – SPD zur Strategie für Covid-19-Therapien
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
- CM 3107 2021 INIT WORKING PARTY ON COMPETITIVENESS AND GROWTH (Industry)
- CM 3078 2021 INIT Informal videoconference of the members of the Working Party on International Environment Issues (Biosafety) (morning only)
- ST 8393 2021 INIT Council Recommendation on a coordinated approach to the restriction of free movement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Schengen area – notification by Denmark
- ST 8444 2021 INIT COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annexes II, III and V to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for clethodim, dazomet, hexythiazox, metam and sethoxydim in or on certain products – Decision not to oppose the adoption
- ST 7848 2021 ADD 1 COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annexes II, III and IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for acequinocyl, acibenzolar-S-methyl, Bacillus subtilis strain IAB/BS03, emamectin, flonicamid, flutolanil, fosetyl, imazamox and oxathiapiprolin in or on certain products – Decision not to oppose the adoption
EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER
- Answer to a written question – The Commission’s failure to appoint a representative to coordinate the EU’s protection of wildlife – P-001713/2021(ASW)
- Answer to a written question – ‘Pollinator Park’ – P-001426/2021(ASW)
- Answer to a written question – Animal testing – E-001215/2021(ASW)
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
DG ENV
- COMMISSION DECISION relating of 264,319.24 € (two hundred and sixty-four thousand, three hundred and nineteen euro and twenty-four cents) due by Sulayr Global Services SL
- DG SANTE
- COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/… withdrawing the approval of the active substance alpha-cypermethrin in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS EU STRATEGY ON COVID-19 THERAPEUTICS
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS EU STRATEGY ON COVID-19 THERAPEUTICS
DG GROW
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy: Building a stronger Single Market for Europe’s recovery
- COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION on the financing of the Programme for Single Market, the competitiveness of enterprises, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and European Statistics and the adoption of the work programme for 2021-2024
- COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Towards competitive and clean European steel Accompanying the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, and the Committee of the Regions Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy: Building a stronger Single Market for Europe’s recovery
- COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Strategic dependencies and capacities Accompanying the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy: Building a stronger Single Market for Europe’s recovery
- COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Annual Single Market Report 2021 Accompanying the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy: Building a stronger Single Market for Europe’s recovery
SCHEER BRIEFS
- SCHEER – Minutes of the Working Group meeting on e-cigarettes of 28 April 2021
- SCHEER – Minutes of the Working Group meeting on nuclear taxonomy of 6 April 2021
SCCS BRIEFS
- SCCS – Minutes of the Working Group Meeting on Cosmetic Ingredients of 27 April 2021
EFSA BRIEFS
- Safety assessment of titanium dioxide (E171) as a food additive
- Titanium dioxide: E171 no longer considered safe when used as a food additive
- GP/EFSA/PREV/2021/01 – Entrusting new preparatory tasks falling within the mission of the EFSA Pesticides Peer Review and Pesticides Residues and Application Desk units
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