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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11929
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / State aid

Green light to Irish aid scheme to small and medium-sized enterprises

On Tuesday 19 December, the European Commission approved an Irish scheme to reduce tax on staff share options under EU state aid rules.

The measure will take the form of a tax exemption on the income and social insurance contributions of employees of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) when they exercise their share options.

This regime aims to support these businesses, which do not always have the financial resources to be able to offer attractive pay to qualified staff, which could...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
INTERNAL MARKET: Commission behind initiative to improve marketing and security of products in EU
ENERGY: Inter-institutional agreement in principle on revised directive on building performance
ENERGY: Council of EU reaches political agreement in principle on energy/climate governance mechanism
ENERGY: Informal Council political agreement on revised renewables directive
ENERGY: Fragile agreement of principle at Council of EU on modalities for electricity capacity mechanisms
SPACE: Seven member states seeking to host Galileo Security Monitoring Centre
CONSUMERS: Dieselgate - VW pledges to meet promises made to consumers but not to compensate them
CLIMATE: EU sees launch of Chinese carbon market as strong signal to Trump administration
ENVIRONMENT: Eurobarometer reveals 90% of EU citizens worried about chemicals in everyday products
JUSTICE: Busy 2018 agenda for Commission
JUSTICE: Inter-institutional negotiations on reform of Eurojust to continue at beginning of 2018
INSTITUTIONAL
POLAND:  Rule of law - European Commission could activate Article 7 procedure against Warsaw
UNITED KINGDOM: Commission sets out vision for post-Brexit transition period sought by London
TRANSPARENCY: European Ombudsman asks Mr Tusk to clarify what contacts he has had with lobbyists
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
BANKS: Banking Union – Court of Auditors lists failings in drafting of resolution plans
ECB: De Masi and Varoufakis bring monetary institute before Court of Justice
STATE AID: Green light for German scheme to phase in surcharge for renewable energies
STATE AID: Green light to Irish aid scheme to small and medium-sized enterprises
EXTERNAL ACTION
SWITZERLAND: Member states asked to take position on shorter equivalency period for Swiss stock exchanges than anticipated
WESTERN BALKANS: Mogherini urges governments to speed up reform
LEBANON: EU adopts new €44 million aid programme
KYRGYZSTAN: Official launch of talks on new cooperation agreement
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: Twelve recommendations from SMEs to improve social security system coordination
NEWS BRIEFS
STATE AID: Green light to introduction of tradable phosphate production rights for dairy farming in Netherlands
STATE AID: Conditional green light to Maltese tonnage tax scheme for vessels
ALBANIA: EU criticises throwing of smoke bombs in parliament
GEORGIA: Erik Høeg appointed to head EUMM Georgia monitoring mission
MYANMAR: EU calls for release of two journalists
TRANSPORT: Council gives green light for revising rules on use of non-motorised balloons