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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13245

8 September 2023
Contents Publication in full By article 22 / 32
NEWS BRIEFS / Energy
MEPs adopt European Parliament draft report on revision of REMIT regulation

07/09/23 (Agence Europe) – Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) have adopted by 53 votes to 6, with 2 abstentions, the draft report by Maria da Graça Carvalho (EPP, Portuguese) to improve the Union’s protection against manipulation on the wholesale energy market (REMIT regulation), as part of the reform of the electricity market. The compromise alternative amendment tabled by MEPs Zdzisław Krasnodębski (ECR, Polish) and...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
COMPETITIVENESS: critical raw materials act – MEPs adopt their position
COMPETITIVENESS: Net-Zero Industry Act, a compromise is emerging among MEPs on scope of text
COMPETITIVENESS: funds allocated to Strategic Technology for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) should be increased, according to rapporteurs for European Parliament text
RESEARCH: a political agreement has been reached on UK’s participation in Horizon Europe and Copernicus
ENERGY: co-legislators are asked by European Commission not to delay pending legislation
ENERGY: positive reception from MEPs for draft report on small modular reactors
ENERGY: at forum on electricity networks, Kadri Simson identifies levers for action for a “resilient” energy transition in Europe
ENERGY: energy transition—E.DSO publishes report to help power distribution grids facing expansion of renewable energies
MIGRATION: Frontex works with third countries in compliance with highest possible human rights standards, assures its Executive Director
AGRICULTURE: organic farming best guarantee of food safety in EU, according to research platform
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES
MEDIA: MEPs approve a common position on European Media Freedom Act
INSTITUTIONAL
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: MEPs toughen up draft ‘Bischoff’ report reforming transparency and ethics rules
EUROPEAN COMMISSION: Commission makes appointments to various departments
SECURITY - DEFENCE
NATO: Jens Stoltenberg stresses importance of cooperation between EU and NATO
Russian invasion of Ukraine
RUSSIA/BELARUS: European Commission publishes ‘anti-circumvention’ guidance to EU sanctions
EXTERNAL ACTION
NIGER: EU denounces obstacles to movements of its ambassador stationed in Niamey
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EMPLOYMENT
SOCIAL: MEPs ready to negotiate with EU Council on occupational exposure values for lead and diisocyanates
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
DIGITAL: CJEU says data collected to combat serious crime cannot be used for investigations into public sector corruption
DIGITAL: protection of personal data, General Court of EU dismisses as inadmissible EDPS’s action against amended ‘Europol’ Regulation
NEWS BRIEFS
AGRICULTURE: European Commission approves two new protected names
ENERGY: electricity market reform, a suggested European electricity price for industry to avoid “subsidy race”
ENERGY: MEPs adopt European Parliament draft report on revision of REMIT regulation
FINANCE: ESMA updates its Reporting Manual on European Single Electronic Format
INDUSTRY: European Committee of Regions announces creation of a political alliance on semiconductors
JUSTICE: Vincent Jamin becomes Eurojust’s new Administrative Director
DIGITAL: Google has announced that, from November, ads generated by its services will indicate whether artificial intelligence tools were used in their design
GMOs: new genomic techniques, Leonore Gewessler ready to mobilise coalition of EU countries opposed to Commission’s proposal
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Laura Ballarín joins S&D Group and Ana Collado joins EPP Group
NEAR EAST: EU denounces Mahmoud Abbas’s remarks about Jews and Holocaust
CIVIL PROTECTION: floods – EU provides satellite maps to help Greece and Bulgaria
ANIMAL HEALTH: MEPs call on European Commission to present animal welfare proposal
SOCIAL: members of European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs validate interinstitutional agreement on asbestos reached before summer