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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13104
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Agriculture

Pesticides, EU farm organisations critical of restrictive interpretation of rules by Court of Justice

The European Association of Sugar Manufacturers (CEFS), the International Confederation of European Beet Growers (CIBE) and the EU agricultural organisations and cooperatives (Copa-Cogeca) took note on Friday 20 January of the EU Court of Justice’s judgment that, in their view, “interprets Article 53 of the European Regulation on placing of plant protection products on the market in a very restrictive manner, prohibiting the use of seeds coated with banned pesticides – even through...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
CONSUMERS: towards an EU framework to stop and sanction misleading green claims
MIGRATION: revision of Single Permit Directive, work of EU Council diverges significantly from positions of European Parliament rapporteur
TRANSPORT: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Luxembourg call on Commission to quickly publish a review of CO2 standards for heavy duty vehicles
ENERGY: ACER publishes its first LNG price assessment in Europe
DIGITAL: Commission publishes its list of high-value datasets to be made available for re-use by the public sector
HEALTH: Executive Steering Group on Shortages and Safety of Medicinal Products sees an improvement in supply of antibiotics in Europe
HEALTH: European Clinical Trials Information System should be fully operational by end of transition to new regulation
AGRICULTURE: pesticides, EU farm organisations critical of restrictive interpretation of rules by Court of Justice
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
BANKS: ‘Basel III’ package, MEPs want to include banks’ exposures to crypto-assets in negotiations with EU Council
BANKS: significant increase in high incomes in banking sector in 2021
ECONOMY: European Commission proposes new legal framework for certain statistics
EXTERNAL ACTION
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: war in Ukraine, Sahel, Palestine, Afghanistan, Caucasus and Iran on Council agenda for 23 January
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
ENVIRONMENT: EU Court of Justice validates French restrictions on sales promotion of biocidal products
NEWS BRIEFS
COMPANIES: European Commission consults on upcoming revision of ‘Late Payments Directive’
JUSTICE: Eurojust reports record number of cases in 2022
DIGITAL: personal data on WhatsApp, Irish Data Protection Commission fines Meta group €5.5 million
HEALTH: restrictions related to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for blood product donations could be reassessed
SOCIAL: statutory minimum wages, increases seen in Member States in 2022 likely insufficient to make up for inflation, says Eurofound
TRANSPORT: aviation industry welcomes decision to postpone implementation of new EU smart border system for non-EU nationals