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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10749

12 December 2012
Contents Publication in full By article 18 / 39
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) agriculture
French Gruyère is granted PGI status

Brussels, 11/12/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 7 December, Stéphane Le Foll, French Agriculture Minister, welcomed the fact that the European Commission had granted protected geographical indication (PGI) status to French “Gruyère” cheese. Recognition as a product with PGI status allows “cultural and gastronomic heritage to be preserved”, explains the French agriculture minister (our translation), adding: “It also recognises the excellence of the know-how of the men and women...

Contents

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
(AE) INTERNAL MARKET: European Parliament pushes unitary patent forward
(AE) TRANSPORT: MEPs hostile to airports package day before vote
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
(AE) PATENT: Advocate general proposes rejecting Spanish and Italian pleas
INSTITUTIONAL
(AE) EUROPEAN COUNCIL: Clarity in short-term, but long-term remains vague
(AE) BUDGET: Final 2013 budget approval on Wednesday but without Greens
(AE) ITALY: Support for Monti at Parliament, EPP rejects all populism
SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) RESEARCH: Council adds stone to “Horizon 2020” edifice
(AE) RESEARCH: Council determines EIT priority areas
(AE) RESEARCH: Completion of European research area closer
(AE) PUBLIC MARKETS: Political agreement at Council on 3 legislative texts
(AE) INTERNAL MARKET: Adoption of conclusions on “new growth”
(AE) CONSUMERS: Informal agreement on extrajudicial litigation resolution
(AE) DIGITAL: Commission suspends Czech termination rates project
(AE) DIGITAL: Commission suspends Polish broadband project
(AE) ENVIRONMENT: Commission consults on how to improve air quality
(AE) EDUCATION: Study reveals advantages of school partnerships
(AE) AGRICULTURE: Report calls for phasing-out of milk quotas
(AE) AGRICULTURE: French Gruyère is granted PGI status
(AE) TRANSPORT: Council closes file on safer and more ecological motorcycles
(AE) TRANSPORT: €120 million for TGV Est in France
(AE) JHA: More money transferred by migrants to their country of origin in 2011
(AE) JHA: Rules adopted on chemical precursors for home-made explosives
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
(AE) GREECE: Successful buy-back paves way for aid disbursement
(AE) STATE AID: Spain fined for failure to recover illegal aid from Indosa
(AE) COMPETITION: Antitrust proceedings against OPCOM and Transelectrica
(AE) GREECE: New EIB loans totalling €370 million
(AE) EIB: Portugal, Italy and Germany get money to lend to small business
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) SYRIA: EU encourages Syrian coalition
(AE) ISRAEL:
(AE) YEMEN:
(AE) FYROM: Tension on opening negotiations with Skopje
(AE) FOREIGN AFFAIRS: European Parliament calls for digital freedom
(AE) SERBIA/KOSOVO:
(AE) MALI: EU wants prime minister's appointment and watches situation closely
(AE) DRC: East of Congo - external support to M23 is unacceptable, says EU
(AE) COLOMBIA/PERU: European Parliament endorses free trade agreement
(AE) CENTRAL AMERICA: Parliament go-ahead to association agreement
(AE) LATIN AMERICA: Parliament and Commission confident about free trade
(AE) TRADE: