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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11439

27 November 2015
Contents Publication in full By article 18 / 37
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) social
Parliament wants new binding health safety and security measures at work

Brussels, 26/11/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 25 November, the European Parliament called on the European Commission to use the 2016 report on the EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2014-2020 as an opportunity to include new legislative measures on musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) and harassment and violence in the workplace.

The own initiative report by Ole Christensen (S&D, Denmark) was adopted in the plenary session in Strasbourg (536 for, 95 against and 28...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) ENERGY: Way open for talks on revised energy labelling
(AE) ENERGY: Council lays foundations for energy union governance system
(AE) INDUSTRY: Committee of enquiry into Volkswagen scandal now possible
(AE) CONSUMERS: BEUC concerned by Volkswagen's approach to consumers
(AE) DIGITAL: Radio broadcasters get 700 MHz lower band
(AE) DIGITAL: Commission consultation about roaming costs
(AE) FISHERIES: Council approves delegated act on North Sea discard plan
(AE) FISHERIES: Lithuanian plan to improve fisheries control adopted
(AE) FISHERIES: New funding to promote fisheries products
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
(AE) TRADE: WTO-Doha - Parliament wants result in Nairobi
(AE) MOLDOVA: Parliament calls for dialogue and reform from political parties
(AE) GEORGIA: Commission says impetus for democracy must not slacken
(AE) BURMA/MYANMAR: MEPs hail elections and call for path of democracy to be taken
(AE) CAMBODIA: Parliament demands all charges against opposition to be dropped
(AE) BANGLADESH : MEPs call for independence of the media
(AE) HUMANITARIAN AID: Parliament supports doubling of support for education of children in emergency situations
(AE) ANIMAL HEALTH: Parliament calls for ambitious animal welfare strategy
(AE) SOCIAL: Parliament wants new binding health safety and security measures at work
ECONOMY - FINANCE
(AE) ECONOMY: 2016 European Semester exercise gets underway
(AE) ECONOMY: Analysis of macroeconomic imbalances will target 18 countries
(AE) TAXATION: Mandate of special TAXE committee 2 to be negotiated
(AE) FINANCE: Still some technical points to settle to fine-tune agreement on benchmarks
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) MEDITERRANEAN: Economic imbalances and regional challenges on UfM agenda
(AE) ACP: EU and ACP sign intra-ACP cooperation programme for €3.6 billion
(AE) ACP: EU-Mozambique cooperation programme signed for €734 million
(AE) ACP: ACP banana producers call on EU not to abandon them
(AE) TRADE: EU approves OECD agreement on limiting support to coal plants
(AE) DEVELOPMENT: NGOs hail growth of aid funding in EU budget
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
(AE) CONSUMERS: Contracts may provide for rates to be changed on basis of objective index
(AE) STATE AID: Spain must recover state aid granted by Spain to operators of terrestrial television platform
NEWS BRIEFS
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