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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11965
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Transport

Unfair competition from third country airlines is still a subject of debate at European Parliament

The debate the MEPs from the European Parliament’s transport committee had regarding the presentation of amendments to the draft report from Markus Pieper (EPP, Germany) on the revision of regulation 868/2004, confirmed the differences of views in tacking unfair competition from third country airlines. This debate was part of the proposal for a revision of the 868/2004 directive presented by the European Commission on 8 June last (see EUROPE 11804). This is because it has never been...

Contents

ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: EU sounds out businesses over American tax reform and stands ready to react
FINANCE: Several European ministers sceptical over idea of reduced prudential requirements for 'green' investments
BANKS: Agreement at Council on 'risk reduction' package hoped for in March
BANKS: Latvian ABLV bank case – EU monitoring situation
SECTORAL POLICIES
DIGITAL: MEPs preparing to amend Community law on consumer goods
JHA: Parliament wants to achieve reform of Schengen Information System before end of June
JHA: Concerns in Parliament over future of Schengen zone
ENVIRONMENT: MEPs veto authorisation of herbicide-resistant transgenic maize
ENVIRONMENT: MEPs urge EU to work on global ban on cosmetics testing on animals
HEALTH: MEPs are not opposed to a data storage system linked to tobacco products
TRANSPORT: Unfair competition from third country airlines is still a subject of debate at European Parliament
TRANSPORT: Stakeholders concerned about impact of Brexit on maritime transport
TRANSPORT: MEPs vote on own-initiative report to speed up introduction of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems
AGRICULTURE: Ministers want sector to benefit more from bioeconomy
AGRICULTURE: Ministers hail plant protein plan prepared by Commission
BREXIT: Cities meet Barnier and Verhofstadt in effort to get their voices heard in negotiations
EXTERNAL ACTION
SAHEL: Brussels conference on 23 February aimed at mobilising international community for region's development and security
BURMA/MYANMAR: Ministers expected to call for additional restrictive measures
KUWAIT: EU and Gulf resume negotiations on free trade agreement
BELARUS: EU calls on Minsk again to reform its electoral legislation
VIETNAM: European Parliament's concerns about delays ahead of validation of EU-Vietnam free trade agreement
MEXICO: Hopes of agreement in principle at end of week on trade section of revised global EU-Mexico agreement
GEORGIA: European Parliament committee's green light to third package of EU macro financial assistance
INDONESIA: European shipowners criticise new Indonesian decree restricting trade of several products
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
BIODIVERSITY: Advocate general says management of the Bialowieza forest by Poland is in breach of EU law
INSTITUTIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM: David Davis dismisses idea of watering-down of standards after Brexit
BUDGET: Italian suggestion to avoid excessive cuts to CAP and cohesion policy post-2020
TRANSPARENCY: New accelerated procedure to deal with complaints concerning access to documents of EU institutions
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: Dombrovskis says economic recovery should be used to encourage structural reforms
NEWS BRIEFS
AGRICULTURE: European Commission to launch task force to help rural Africa
STATE AID: Green light to prolongation of British support measure for postal services
ECB: Bruno Le Maire says Guindos' appointment as vice-president does not prejudge attribution of future senior EU positions
PATENTS: EPO launches consultation to review rules of procedure for boards of appeal
COHESION: CCRE calls for next European budget to be sensitive to gender equality
ENERGY: European Court of Auditors documents audit relating to support for wind and solar energy in EU
ENVIRONMENT: Pesticides - European Parliament special 'PEST' committee looks for chairman
SPACE: Croatia signs cooperation agreement with European Space Agency
SPACE: Airbus to develop next EGNOS