25/10/2018 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 25 October, it was the turn of the European Parliament, following on from the ambassadors of the member states, to approve the rules governing the transfer of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to the Netherlands and the European Banking Authority (EBA) to France, following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU (see EUROPE 12119). The MEPs expressed satisfaction at the Council's decision, annexed to the regulation, in which the member states recognise the value of a reinforced exchange of information in the first stages of the agency moves, whilst calling upon the Commission to provide an analysis, by 2019, of the implementation of the common approach of 2012 to decentralised agencies. The new rules were adopted with the support of more than 400 MEPs. (SPj)