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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12487

15 May 2020
Contents Publication in full By article 34 / 36
NEWS BRIEFS / Wto
Phil Hogan says “we cannot waste a moment” in finding a replacement for Director-General Azevêdo

14/05/2020 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 14 May, WTO Director General (DG) Roberto Azevêdo announced to members that he would step down on 31 August 2020, one year before the end of his second term. Saying it was a personal decision, the Brazilian encouraged Members to select his replacement as soon as possible before resuming preparations for the Ministerial Meeting (MC12), which has been postponed to June 2021. “We have set ourselves ambitious and transformative goals for MC12 and for...

Contents

BEACONS
BEACONS: One Health, or how multilateralism can help to stamp out a pandemic
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
SOCIAL: Member States’ experts give green light for a risk category 3 classification of coronavirus for workers
COMPETITIVENESS: issue of Union's strategic autonomy on EU ministers' agenda, Friday 15 May
EUROGROUP: EU Finance Ministers will finalise three safety nets for states, workers and companies
EYCS: effects of pandemic on youth and culture at heart of a new informal meeting
HORN OF AFRICA: Covid-19 means EU increases humanitarian aid to vulnerable populations by €105.5 million
TRANSPORT: adoption of new support measures for sector will be subject to an urgency procedure in European Parliament and a written procedure in EU Council
RESEARCH: European Institute of Innovation and Technology mobilises a further €60 million to cope with Covid-19 pandemic
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
HUNGARY: Commission promises to closely monitor lifting of emergency measures implemented during the pandemic
BUDGET: European Parliament asks Commission to present 'contingency plan' on MFF by mid-June
HEALTH: MEPs call for fair access in EU and globally to future Covid-19 vaccine
DIGITAL: MEPs begin discussions on mobile tracing applications
FUTURE OF EU: no effort will be spared to get Conference on Future of Europe running, says EU Council Presidency
GMO: European Parliament votes not to approve a dicamba- and glyphosate tolerant Monsanto soybean in EU
FISHERIES: European Parliament gives go ahead for one-year extension of EU-Mauritania fisheries agreement
FISHERIES: European Parliament approves amendment to International Convention for Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
COMPANIES: European Parliament gives green light to extension of time limit for holding general meetings of 'European Companies'
SECTORAL POLICIES
JUSTICE/HOME AFFAIRS: MEPs are struggling to determine way forward on their priority work
CLIMATE: CORSIA, Commission proposes to use years 2021, 2022 and 2023 to calculate offsetting requirements
FISHERIES: Commission submits Regulation on deep-sea fisheries for consultation
EXTERNAL ACTION
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: European Foreign Ministers discuss Middle East peace process
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
STATE AID: approval of Spanish financial aid for Correos universal postal service obligation
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
MIGRATION: Court qualifies the placement of asylum seekers in Hungarian transit zone of Röszke as “detention”
SOCIAL: A1 certificate is binding on host country of a posted worker solely in terms of social security, Court holds
CONSUMERS: Court clarifies concept of “available” telephone number for exercise of consumer’s right of withdrawal
JUSTICE: member States must grant compensation to every victim of crime in their territory, regardless of residence, according to Advocate General
BREACHES OF EU LAW
TAXATION: Commission refers Netherlands to Court of Justice because of its system for taxing pension capital transfers
UNITED KINGDOM: EU calls on London to properly apply EU free movement rules, even during transition
FISHERIES: Malta in breach of EU rules on controls on Bluefin tuna farms
MONEY LAUNDERING: eight Member States and the United Kingdom flagged for failing to transpose 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive
NEWS BRIEFS
CYBERSECURITY: Council of EU extends its sanctions regime for cyber-attackers for a year
LEBANON: More than 50 MEPs call for greater support from EU
WTO: EU appoints its candidate to pool of judges of interim multiparty appeal arbitration arrangement
WTO: Phil Hogan says “we cannot waste a moment” in finding a replacement for Director-General Azevêdo
UNITED KINGDOM: European Parliament refuses to allow London to continue to have access to Member States' fingerprint databases
Op-Ed
OP-ED: Europe tracing the virus - technical choice, political call, by Adrián Vázquez Lázara