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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11872
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INSTITUTIONAL / Budget

Court of Auditors warns against scale of latest payment backlog

On Thursday 28 September, the Court of Auditors of the EU issued a warning over the very high level of payments the EU has still to make against future budgets.

Presenting the annual report of the Court of Auditors on the 2016 budget, which notes a number of improvements, the President of the Court, Klaus-Heiner Lehne, also observed that the amount of unpaid bills was higher than ever in 2016, standing at €238.8 billion.

Avoiding a new payment backlog. “Eliminating the backlog and...

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BEACONS
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INSTITUTIONAL
UK: Barnier says Brexit negotiations making progress but not enough to discuss future partnership
UNITED KINGDOM: MEPs say acquis communautaire and ECJ jurisdiction must continue in any post-Brexit transition period
EUROPEAN AGENCIES: Jealously fought battle to host future post-Brexit European Medicines Agency 
BUDGET: Court of Auditors warns against scale of latest payment backlog
SECTORAL POLICIES
TRANSPORT: Commission presents proposal to strengthen railway passenger rights
JHA: Commission provides digital giants until May 2018 to improve withdrawal of illegal content
JUSTICE: European Parliament's green light to creation of European Public Prosecutor
FOOD SAFETY: MEPs veto proposed acrylamide rules as overly bureaucratic for SMEs
GMO: Parliament environment committee objects to import of soy bean resistant to herbicide mixtures
GMO: Parliament environment committee objects to authorisation of soybean resistant to glyphosate and 2,4D
HEALTH: European Parliament environment committee objects to criteria helping to define endocrine disruptors
CIRCULAR ECONOMY: Fresh round of inter-institutional talks on revision of waste framework directive on 25 October
INDUSTRY: Automobile industry thinks review of CO2 emission targets is necessary in 2025
ENERGY: gas cooperation in Central and South-Eastern Europe to be extended to other sectors
ENERGY: Romania, doing well on renewables, stays committed to EU targets
COHESION: Ms Cretu sums up ideas mooted during Commission reflection for future cohesion policy
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
BANKS: Banking industry calls for action so that EU is no longer 'sick man' of financial technologies
TAXATION: VAT gap still equal to EU budget
COMPETITION: Agreement reached between France and Italy on STX
EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT: MEPs call for all member states to adopt minimum income
EXTERNAL ACTION
SERBIA: Education projects signed for €27.4 million
UKRAINE: EU calls for sentence of Crimean Tatar chief to be reversed
RUSSIA: EU hails completion of full destruction of chemical weapons
MIDDLE EAST: Quartet calls for concrete measures for control of Gaza and West Bank by a legitimate Palestinian authority
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Satisfactory first trilogue meeting on Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace
HUMANITARIAN AID: EU allocates €25,000 in emergency aid to Dominica after devastation by Hurricane Maria
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Subject to conditions, companies may use designs protected by Nintendo to advertise products compatible with Wii video games console
NEWS BRIEFS
LIBYA: EU again extends by six months sanctions against Saleh, Ghweil and Abu Sahmein
LOBBYING: Monsanto denied access to European Parliament until further notice
PALESTINE: Kauko Aaltomaa appointed as head of EUPOL COPPS police mission