04/03/2021 (Agence Europe) – The ‘trilogues’ will soon be able to begin. The MEPs of the European Parliament’s Committees on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and Legal Affairs (JURI) approved, on Thursday 4 March, the opening of interinstitutional negotiations on the proposal for ‘public country by country reporting’ (CBCR), which will require companies to make public certain accounting data such as their turnover and taxes paid (see EUROPE 12653/2). After 5 years of deadlock, the Member States approved the Council of the EU’s negotiating mandate the day before (see EUROPE 12670/11). Parliament, for its part, adopted its first reading position (see EUROPE 12223/13) on the text in 2019. Evelyn Regner (S&D, Austria) and Ibán García Del Blanco (S&D, Spain) will be the main negotiators for Parliament, and they are determined to reach an agreement under the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council. (MF)