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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12715

8 May 2021
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Food safety
E171 colouring agent can no longer be considered a safe food additive, says EFSA
Brussels, 07/05/2021 (Agence Europe)

Titanium dioxide (E171), a colouring agent used as a food additive, can no longer be considered safe, according to a revised scientific opinion published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on Thursday 6 May.

In response to a request from the European Commission in March 2020, EFSA has updated the safety assessment of this additive that it conducted in 2016. This study concluded that there was a lack of data and that further research was needed to fill the gap.

The EFSA scientists...

Contents

PORTO SUMMIT
SOCIAL: Porto Social Summit, a European attempt to speed up implementation of European pillar of social rights
SOCIAL: at Porto Summit, social partners present their methodology for measuring citizens’ “well-being”
SOCIAL: The radical Left organises its social counter-summit in Porto
INSTITUTIONAL
FUTURE OF EU: agreement on role and composition of plenary assembly of Conference on Europe
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
TRADE: EU awaits evidence that intellectual property slows supply of Covid-19 vaccines
HEALTH: European Medicines Agency begins rolling review of a fourth potential treatment for Covid-19
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
COMPANIES: European Commission gauges temperature with stakeholders on corporate environmental performance information
FINANCE: European Commission proposes a new set of technical regulatory standards on benchmarks
FINANCE: securitisation - Commission clarifies cooperation obligations between national and European authorities
FINANCE: Commission proposes to extend derogation from clearing obligation for Pension Scheme Arrangements
MONEY LAUNDERING: EBA builds its future central anti-money laundering database
EXTERNAL ACTION
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Western Balkans and transatlantic relations on EU ministers agenda on Monday 10 May
ENLARGEMENT: Olivér Várhelyi prepared to decouple accession processes of North Macedonia and Albania
NEAR EAST: EU takes action over allegations Palestinian armed group was funded using European funds
AFGHANISTAN: Westerners call for immediate resumption of peace negotiations
SECTORAL POLICIES
CLIMATE: European Union wants to further promote new Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change on international stage
CLIMATE: ETS, Frans Timmermans warns against European Commission action to regulate carbon price
FOOD SAFETY: E171 colouring agent can no longer be considered a safe food additive, says EFSA
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES
WOMEN: report denouncing barriers to sexual and reproductive rights to be adopted in European Parliament Committee
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: Council of Europe Committee for Prevention of Torture calls for decent living conditions for prisoners
POLAND: European Court of Human Rights condemns Poland in a case involving reform of judicial system
NEWS BRIEFS
CLIMATE: more climate impacts of F-gases than usually considered, according to NGO ECOS
CONSUMERS: since March 2020, ECC-Net has compensated its users for over €4 million
MIGRATION: Ylva Johansson in Ankara to discuss positive development of EU-Turkey relations
MIGRATION: Slovenia strengthens surveillance of its border with Croatia
NICARAGUA: recent electoral reform takes country further away from ending crisis, says EU
CALENDAR
MAIN ACTIVITIES OF EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS : until 16 May 2021
CALENDAR EXTRA
Other events: until 14 May 2021