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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12270

7 June 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 13 / 41
INSTITUTIONAL / S&d
Group chair, two choices currently on table
Brussels, 06/06/2019 (Agence Europe)

Two candidates expressed interest in the position of S&D Group Chairman in the European Parliament at a third group meeting on Thursday 6 June. They are the current president of the group, Udo Bullmann of Germany, and the first vice-president of the party (PES), Iratxe García of Spain. However, applications remain open until 12 June.

The latter has a considerable advantage, since her party, the PSOE, which is also the party of the interim Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, won a...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
JUSTICE: digitisation of judicial cooperation, ministers want a long transition period and derogations
JUSTICE: commissioner Věra Jourová calls for efforts on missing appointments in European Public Prosecutor's Office
JUSTICE: Commission has its mandate to negotiate a transatlantic agreement on access to e-evidence
JUSTICE: EMCDDA reports record cocaine seizures in EU
JUSTICE: lawful interception of communications could be disrupted by 5G, says Mr de Kerchove
TRANSPORT: differences of opinion in EU Council on air transport taxation to combat climate change
TRANSPORT: EU Council approves progress reports on several legislative dossiers
TRANSPORT: EU Council reaches agreement on electronic exchange of information in freight
TRANSPORT: EU States and Eastern Partnership countries reaffirm their cooperation
ANIMAL HEALTH: NGO AAP campaigns for EU-wide ban on wild animals in circuses
ENERGY: EU should produce more electricity from wind and solar power, advises Court of Auditors
ENERGY: EU Council praises merits of non-power nuclear and radiological technologies
INSTITUTIONAL
S&D: group chair, two choices currently on table
ALDE: group still does not have a new name
GUE/NGL: La France insoumise outlines its main priorities in European Parliament
CATALONIA: Alfred Bosch calls for national rules to be overruled and for Mr Puigdemont and Mr Comin to be accredited
ECONOMY - FINANCE
ECB: monetary institute will not raise its key rates at least until mid-2020
ECONOMY: GDP up by 0.4% in euro area and by 0.5% in EU in first quarter of 2019
EXTERNAL ACTION
TRADE: Revision of steel safeguard measures is already underway
TUNISIA: during a fourth round of trade negotiations, Tunisians recall that agreement must be “asymmetrical and progressive”
UKRAINE: EU announces additional actions for Azov Sea region this summer
YOUTH
YOUTH:  Ninety-five thousand young people applied to DiscoverEU initiative
BREACHES OF EU LAW
INTERNAL MARKET: Commission singles out all EU Member States on services
INTERNAL MARKET: electronic invoicing, 12 Member States on European Commission's radar
ENVIRONMENT: Commission gives nine Member States formal notice about ship recycling
ENVIRONMENT: Portugal singled out by European Commission for protection of its marine waters
TAXATION: Commission refers Austria to EU Court of Justice for failure to comply with VAT rules applicable to travel agencies
TAXATION: Spain brought before European Court concerning imposition of disproportionate penalties for non-declaration of assets held abroad
NEWS BRIEFS
STATE AID: green light given to a Dutch measure to support creation of a development bank
PATENTS: counterfeiting causes EU to lose more than €60 billion each year, according to EPO and EUIPO
COLOMBIA: EU mobilises €6 million for most vulnerable people
ESTONIA: Estonia nominates its future candidate for European Commission
JHA: final green light for new security rules for future identity cards
JHA: EU ministers definitively adopt new EU visa rules
JUSTICE: EU Council asks Commission to carry out a study on retention of electronic communication data for purpose of fighting crime
MERCOSUR: “it is not excluded that trade negotiations may end before the summer”, says Mrs Malmström
DIGITAL: Directive on re-use of public sector information finally adopted
FISHERIES: Commission requests go-ahead from EU Council to negotiate new EU/Mauritania fisheries agreement
FISHERIES: EU Council approves legislation on EU/Guinea-Bissau fisheries agreement
FISHERIES: EU Council adopts multiannual fish management plan for Mediterranean
TRANSPORT: EU Council go-ahead for Interinstitutional Agreement on training for seafarers