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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12169
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Transport

MEPs ready to negotiate with Council on road infrastructure safety management

Members of the European Parliament's Transport Committee voted (39 votes in favour, 6 votes against, 0 abstentions) to adopt their negotiating position on the revision of Directive 2008/96/EC on road infrastructure safety management on Thursday 10 January.

This vote echoed the draft report by Daniela Aiuto (ELDD, Italy) presented last autumn (see EUROPE 12111), which itself followed the European Commission's proposal as part of the third mobility package (see EUROPE 12022). At that time, the...

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INSTITUTIONAL
ROMANIA: for Mr Meleşcanu, Mr Dragnea has right to sue European Commission
BUDGET: Court of Auditors asks Commission to step up its fight against fraud
EPP: Manfred Weber is ready to talk to all political families defending a pro-European project
SECTORAL POLICIES
DIGITAL: copyright, Council is moving towards an exclusion of SMEs on issue of value gap
TRANSPORT: ‘Mobility’ package I: MEPs vote on cabotage, but block posting and driving time
TRANSPORT: MEPs vote on two reports aimed at anticipating consequences of Brexit on transport
TRANSPORT: MEPs ready to negotiate with Council on road infrastructure safety management
ENVIRONMENT/CLIMATE: European Parliament/Council negotiations on LIFE post-2020 programme have started in a good climate
MIGRATION: 1,600 amendments tabled to European Parliament draft report on strengthening of European Coast and Border Guard Agency
JHA: New rules on EU visa policy could be adopted before spring, according to European Parliament rapporteur
FISHERIES: European Parliament Committee ready to negotiate with Council on ‘Mediterranean’ management plan
FISHERIES: European Parliament Committee supports agreement to avoid unregulated fishing in Arctic
ENERGY: EFET requests the suspension of a measure adopted by Romania
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
FINANCE: reform of European financial supervisory architecture adopted by European Parliament with flying colours
FINANCE: first recommendations of expert group on sustainable finance on climate disclosure
STATE AIDS: Netherlands, which is subject of an in-depth Commission investigation into tax treatment of Nike
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: European Parliament and Council address scope of Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions Directive
EXTERNAL ACTION
WTO: EU, Japan and the United States promise rapid progress on problem of industrial subsidies and e-commerce
UNITED STATES: Malmström still refuses to include agriculture in upcoming bilateral trade negotiations
DRC: EU takes note of provisional results of elections and calls for restraint pending final results
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
JUSTICE: Advocate General proposes that territoriality scope of de-referencing of a search engine should be limited to the EU
JUSTICE: Search engines must systematically grant requests to remove links to sensitive data, Advocate General says
NEWS BRIEFS
FUTURE OF THE EU: Vivian Linssen, independent candidate for Presidency of European Commission
JUSTICE: European Parliament approve interinstitutional directive on combating fraud in non-cash means of payment
INDUSTRY: Commission launches public consultation on sustainability requirements for batteries
PAYMENTS: green light from MEPs for Inter-institutional Agreement to harmonise costs of cross-border payments in euros
EP2019: Viktor Orbán names immigration and Emmanuel Macron as enemies to be defeated during European elections
RESEARCH: Sweden, Austria, Denmark and Germany, champions of R&D investment, according to Eurostat
ROMANIA: S&D group in European Parliament assures Bucharest that it will put pressure on it to respect rule of law
UNITED KINGDOM: British Parliament makes new requirements before vote on an orderly Brexit on 15 January
TRANSPORT: MEPs give green light to Interinstitutional Agreement on competition in aviation
TRANSPORT: Green light from Member States on Inter-institutional Agreement on port reception facilities for delivery of waste from ships
VIETNAM: European industry wants to speed up ratification of trade agreement, civil society calls for postponement