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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11804
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Agriculture

S&D Group backs EFA pesticides ban

On the initiative of Socialist coordinator in the European Parliament’s agriculture committee Éric Andrieu, the S&D Group in Parliament agreed unanimously on Thursday 8 June to back the delegated act that seeks to ban the use of pesticides on ecological focus areas (EFAs).

The S&D Group position is, therefore, to support the delegated act presented by the Commission which contains a number of provisions, including prohibiting the use of plant protection products on EFAs. The agriculture...

Contents

BEACONS
BEACONS: When misleading figures call for a new Bismarck
SECTORAL POLICIES
JUSTICE: European Public Prosecutor, with 20 participating member states at the moment, is nearly ready to go
JUSTICE: Commission tests out its ideas at Council on legislative initiative on harvesting electronic evidence
JUSTICE: Council decides minimum rules for penalising money laundering under criminal law
TRANSPORT: Commission publishes proposals to protect EU airlines and improve aviation traffic
TRANSPORT: Mobility package brings tensions to fore
TRANSPORT: Council calls for greater focus on safety in road hauliers' training
TRANSPORT: Council aims to halve road deaths between 2010 and 2020
DIGITAL: Council agreement on digital content
DIGITAL: MEPs finally support creation of rights for press publishers
DIGITAL: Estonia outlines its programme to Telecommunications Council
AGRICULTURE: S&D Group backs EFA pesticides ban
ENERGY: Greens in European Parliament call for 'energy/climate' objectives and governance framework to be significantly reinforced
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECB: Main lending rates will not go any lower
FINANCE: Nine new priority actions added to implementation timetable of Capital Markets Union
TAXATION: Spotlight on tax advisers
TAXATION: Country-by-country tax reporting – European Parliament's ALDE group submits new compromise
BANKS: EBA publishes draft methodology for 2018 stress tests
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
MIGRATION: Advocate General says in cases of mass migration inflows, member state having to assess asylum application is not necessarily country of initial entry into EU
CONSUMERS: Court confirms ban on certain health claims praising qualities of glucose
CITIZENSHIP: Court justifies refusal of automatic recognition of change of name registered in another member state
GENERAL COURT OF EU: Entry into office of new judge
EXTERNAL ACTION
USA: Malmström and Lighthizer underscore their 'shared interest' in strengthening transatlantic trade relations
ALGERIA: EU draws positive conclusion on P3A support programme for diversification of Algerian economy
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: EuroHealthNet commits and calls for action on health equity and well-being
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: On World Oceans Day, Greenpeace calls on EU to save Mediterranean from plastic
INSTITUTIONAL
PARLIAMENT: 134 MEPs call for Tajani to act on exploitation of interns
BETTER REGULATION: REFIT platform adopts 13 new opinions
NEWS BRIEFS
HUMANITARIAN AID: EU-UNICEF project operational for education of refugee children in Turkey
BUDGET: Council agrees on budgetisation of 2016 surplus
DEVELOPMENT: EIB invests €22 million in Pont de Rosso bridge in Senegal
MIGRATION: Italy to receive €58 million more
DIGITAL: Regulation on cross-border portability adopted
TRANSPORT: Transport ministers adopt maritime transport priorities to 2020
TURKEY: EU asks Ankara to uphold the presumption of innocence