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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12171

15 January 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 5 / 22
SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment
Drinking Water Directive revision; more work to be done for general approach of Council in June
Brussels, 14/01/2019 (Agence Europe)

Work resumed on Monday 14 January in the EU Council's Environment Working Group on the update of the 1998 Drinking Water Directive, proposed by the Commission in February 2018 to ensure safe and accessible tap water for all in the EU, in response to the Right2water Citizens' Initiative (see EUROPE 12123). 

The experts from the Member States are not close to finishing their work to enable the Council to reach a general approach next June, as the Romanian Presidency hopes. 

Technical work...

Contents

BEACONS
Beacons: A happy and healthy 2019 to you, Planet Earth!?
INSTITUTIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM: Juncker and Tusk send final “clarifications” to Theresa May to help her win vote on Tuesday evening for orderly exit of her country from EU
EP2019: European elections, Rassemblement national will do everything to “defeat Emmanuel Macron”
SECTORAL POLICIES
DIGITAL: New Romanian compromise proposal to Council on copyright reform
ENVIRONMENT: Drinking Water Directive revision; more work to be done for general approach of Council in June
SOCIETY: Ms Ulvskog wants to give Member States time to stop time change
ENERGY: Francesco La Camera appointed Director General of IRENA
EXTERNAL ACTION
FYROM: Greek government in turmoil after vote by Macedonian Parliament for name change
CAMBODIA: temporary suspension of trade regime, EU denounces threats against political opponents
UNITED STATES: Washington publishes trade negotiation objectives that are at odds with European ambitions
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
MONEY LAUNDERING: ECB and national supervisory authorities agree on information exchange mechanism
BANKING: ECB’s opacity restricts control of banking supervision tasks, criticises the European Court of Auditors
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: inter-institutional negotiations for regulation on coordination of social security systems are launched under high pressure
NEWS BRIEFS
STATE AID: Green light for reintroduction of Croatian support scheme for struggling small banks
GUATEMALA: EU denounces Guatemalan unilateral decision to end UN anti-corruption mission
YOUTH: DiscoverEU - 15,000 new young people selected for the summer of 2019
MIGRATION: Mr Avramopoulos and Mr Salvini claim to share same political priorities on migration issues
SOCIAL: European Labour Authority, European Parliament and Council discuss reconciliation mechanism and governance
TRANSPORT: unions satisfied with European Parliament’s votes on driving and rest times for truck drivers and on secondment
TRANSPORT: stakeholders satisfied with European Parliament vote on road infrastructure safety management
VENEZUELA: EU in solidarity with President of National Assembly, Juan Guaidó
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: No. 1241