COMPETITION
STATE AID
TRADE & CUSTOMS
- Notice to economic operators – New round of requests for the suspension of the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain industrial and agricultural products
- Minutes of the 8th Bilateral meeting between the EU and Panama on SPS measures – 05 December 2022
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) /… concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature (CN: 8543 40 00)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) /… re-imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain pneumatic tyres, new or retreaded, of rubber, of a kind used for buses or lorries, with a load index exceeding 121 originating in the People’s Republic of China following the judgment of the General Court in joined cases T-30/19 and T-72/19
- CETA – Evolution of Key Economic Indicators – Chief Economist Note – March 2023
- EU-Australia Trade Agreement – FactSheet – March 2023
- Answer given by EVP Dombrovskis to a MEP written question – Recognition by China and Japan of the regionalisation principle
- OECD – Agreement to expand export credit support for climate-friendly and green projects
- Europe’s aversion to anti-coercion – Why the EU might shrink from taking on China, and more reasons the UK’s Asia-Pacific trade adventure is a distraction – Financial Times
INTERNAL MARKET & INDUSTRY
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) / on harmonised standards for toys drafted in support of Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
- Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/733 of 3 April 2023 designating Union testing facilities for radio equipment and toys in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 of the European Parliament and of the Council
- InvestEU: €24.8 million in financing for small and medium-sized Swedish businesses to support the circular economy – IP/23/2122
CHEMICAL
- Public consultation – Chemicals – simplification and digitalisation of labelling requirements – Proposal for a regulation – Feedback period: 03 April 2023 – 29 May 2023
FINANCIAL SERVICES
- Agenda for: Meeting of the Financial Services Committee – 20 April 2023
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) …/… laying down implementing technical standards for the application of Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and the Council with regard to the templates for the submission by insurance and reinsurance undertakings to their supervisory authorities of information necessary for their supervision and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2450
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) /… laying down implementing technical standards for the application of Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and the Council with regard to the procedures, formats and templates for the disclosure by insurance and reinsurance undertakings of their report on their solvency and financial condition and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2452
- ESMA’s Final Report on the resolution mandates under the CCP Recovery and Resolution Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2021123)
AGRICULTURE & FISHERIES
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) /… providing for an emergency support measure for the cereal and oilseed sectors in Bulgaria, Poland and Romania
ENERGY
- EU-US Energy Council: opening remarks by High Representative Borrell and Commissioner Simson
- Joint Statement by the EU and the US following the 10th EU-US Energy Council
- EU-US Task Force on Energy Security: one year on
- EU-US Task Force on Energy Security: Progress report and Outlook 2022-2023
- Renewables: main source of energy production in 2021 – Eurostat
- ACER to consult on the harmonised allocation rules for long-term electricity transmission rights
- ACER issues an opinion on ENTSO-E’s revised statutory documents
- ACER launches its LNG benchmark
ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE
- EU Cohesion Policy: 75 projects from young people selected under the #EUTeens4Green initiative – Midday Express
- Public consultation – EU climate target for 2040 – Communication – Feedback period: 31 March 2023 – 23 June 2023
- Zero pollution and biodiversity: national marine environment monitoring programmes show progress, but gaps remain, see also the JRC’s Report – Midday Express
- Opinion by MEP Maria Spyraki on the Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Establishing a framework for setting ecodesign requirements for sustainable products and repealing Directive 2009/125/EC
HEALTH, FOOD & PRODUCT SAFETY
- Consumer protection: Nintendo agrees to offer free repairs of irresponsive Nintendo Switch controllers – IP/23/2106 & Common Position
- Public consultation – Measures related to Popillia japonica – Implementing regulation – Feedback period: 03 April 2023 – 01 May 2023
- SCCS – Preliminary Opinion open for comments on Silver Zinc Zeolite – Deadline for comments: 5 June 2023
- SCHEER – Position Paper on “Draft Environmental Quality Standards for Priority Substances under the Water Framework Directive”
- EFSA – Safety assessment of the process Renovapet, based on the VACUNITE (EREMA basic and Polymetrix SSP V‐leaN) technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
- EFSA – Safety assessment of the process Loreco Plast Recyclage, based on the Vacurema Prime technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
- EFSA – Safety evaluation of the food enzyme asparaginase from the genetically modified Aspergillus oryzae strain NZYM‐OA
- EFSA – Safety evaluation of the food enzyme lysozyme from hens’ eggs
- EFSA – Scientific literature review on group decision‐making models
- EFSA – 2022 Annual Report of the Advisory Group on Data
- ECDC – The way forward with EU/EEA surveillance of infectious diseases
TRANSPORT & MOBILITY
- Report from the Commission on the implementation in 2019-2020 of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport and of Directive 2002/15/EC on the organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (31st report from the Commission on the implementation of the social legislation relating to road transport), and on controls preformed under Council Directive 96/53/EC laying down for heavy-duty vehicles the maximum authorized dimensions and the maximum authorized weights
- Research for TRAN Committee: Assessment of the potential of sustainable fuels in transport – March 2023
DATA PRIVACY & CYBERSECURITY
- Data protection: Recent Commission assessment confirms security and freedom of data flows between the EU and Japan – See the Joint Press Statement – Midday Express
- EDPB – Guidelines 9/2022 on personal data breach notification under GDPR
AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY & JUSTICE
- Public consultation – Upgrading digital company law – Proposal for a directive – Feedback period: 31 March 2023 – 30 May 2023
- rescEU: supporting the development of new emergency shelter reserves with €116 million – IP/23/2071
- Joint Paper: JHA agencies’ contribution to EU solidarity with Ukraine
EURO, ECB & ECONOMY
- Fourth quarter of 2022 compared with fourth quarter of 2021 – House prices up by 2.9% in the euro area – Up by 3.6% in the EU – Stat/39/2023
- February 2023 compared with January 2023 – Industrial producer prices down by 0.5% in the euro area and by 0.6% in the EU – Up by 13.2% in the euro area and by 14.5% in the EU compared with February 2022 – Stat/38/2023
EXTERNAL RELATIONS
- Brussels calls on China to use influence with Russia to rein in war – Ursula von der Leyen and France’s Emmanuel Macron to meet Xi Jinping this week – Financial Times
