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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12714

7 May 2021
Contents Publication in full By article 19 / 27
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Competition
European Commission is considering improving certain rules on horizontal agreements between companies
Brussels, 06/05/2021 (Agence Europe)

On Thursday 6 May, the European Commission found that certain rules under the two horizontal block exemption regulations on Research and Development and specialisation agreements ‘'R&D BER’ and ‘Specialisation BER’ respectively, together ‘HBERs’) could be improved.

The Commission has published a Staff Working Document that summarises the findings of the evaluation of the two regulations and the Horizontal Guidelines.

The aim of the evaluation was to allow the Commission to...

Contents

PORTO SUMMIT
SOCIAL: Member States agree at last minute on Porto Social Summit declaration
HEALTH/TRADE: issue of patent removal on Covid-19 vaccines on agenda of Porto Summit
INDIA: resumption of trade agreement negotiations expected at EU-India Summit
RUSSIA: Relations with Moscow on menu at informal dinner of EU leaders
SECURITY - DEFENCE
DEFENCE: Josep Borrell supports idea of a first entry force
CSDP: Mr Borrell hopes to launch an EU military training mission in Mozambique in coming months
PESCO: EU allows Canada, Norway and US to participate in military mobility project
EXTERNAL ACTION
UNITED KINGDOM: Commission considers that London is not respecting fisheries chapter of trade agreement with EU
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: G7 concerned about Russian and Chinese attitudes
NEAR EAST: EU denounces new Israeli settlement announcements and demolitions
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
HEALTH: Commission aims to have three Covid-19 “therapeutics” approved in EU by October 2021
HEALTH: EU and G7 to champion a sustainable global approach to future pandemics
TRADE: Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway exempted from EU Covid-19 vaccine export licensing mechanism
INSTITUTIONAL
FUTURE OF EU: continued uncertainty about role of plenary session of Conference on Future of Europe
TRANSPARENCY: EU Council adopts new rules making registration of interest representatives mandatory
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
ENVIRONMENT: Commission’s decision to restrict use of three bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides was justified, confirms Court of Justice of EU
POLAND: Polish legislation on disciplinary regime for judges is contrary to EU law, says Court’s Advocate General
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
COMPANIES: proposal for a directive on sustainability reporting well received
COMPETITION: European Commission is considering improving certain rules on horizontal agreements between companies
SECTORAL POLICIES
AGRICULTURE: EU agri-food trade down in January 2021, says European Commission
CIRCULAR ECONOMY/ENERGY: European Commission consults on its new eco-design and energy labelling work plan
ENERGY/CLIMATE: a 45% drop by 2030 in human-caused methane emissions would reduce global warming by 0.3°C, according to UN
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
MIGRATION: Special Representative of Council of Europe Secretary General presents an Action Plan to better protect vulnerable migrants
NEWS BRIEFS
COLOMBIA: EU calls for peace and condemns violence on all sides
CLIMATE: COP25 and COP26 Presidents call on all countries to raise their climate ambitions
DIGITAL: Microsoft commits to keeping its European customers' data in Europe
ERRATUM
TRANSPORT: European Parliament will vote on 17 May on EU-US agreement on time limits for leasing aircraft with crew