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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13173

3 May 2023
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Finance
European Securities and Markets Authority recognises four new third country clearing houses
Brussels, 02/05/2023 (Agence Europe)

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) recognised, on Tuesday 2 May, four new third country clearing houses under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation.

This decision by ESMA brings the number of third country clearing houses recognised by ESMA to 39. The new entities are Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Clearing Berhad, Taiwan Futures Exchange Corporation, Cámara de Riesgo Central de Contraparte de Colombia and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Clearing House.

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Contents

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES
Interview FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: MEP Frances Fitzgerald and activist Jackie Fox call for criminalisation of cyberbullying in EU
SECTORAL POLICIES
HEALTH: EU ministers to discuss access to medicines on Friday 5 May in Stockholm
MIGRATION: Pact on Migration and Asylum, Member States to review progress
INTERNAL MARKET: calls for lighter regulation in EU are growing
ENERGY: EU reaffirms its cooperation with Azerbaijan as a “reliable partner” for energy supply security
CLIMATE: Petersberg Dialogue, Frans Timmermans outlines his roadmap to COP28
CLIMATE: forest fires, according to JRC, 2022 was the second most devastating year ever recorded in EU
COHESION: 2021–2027 programmes expected to create 1.3 million jobs in EU
AGRICULTURE: Copa-Cogeca calls for “automatic triggering of safeguard measures” for Ukrainian exports
TRANSPORT: AERRL issues recommendations to decarbonise rail transport
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Interview COUNCIL OF EUROPE: “If the Council of Europe did not exist, it would have to be invented”, says Parliamentary Assembly President Tiny Kox, in an interview before Reykjavik Summit
SOCIAL - EMPLOYMENT - ÉDUCATION
SOCIAL: EU employment and social affairs ministers invited to better match skills and jobs and to address future of social protection
SOCIAL/HEALTH: European Commission publishes guidelines on exposure to hazardous medicinal products at work
EDUCATION: citizens propose 21 recommendations to extend learning mobility for all
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECONOMY: Stability Pact reform, Italy in favour of excluding certain budgetary expenditures from public deficit accounting
FINANCE: European Securities and Markets Authority recognises four new third country clearing houses
ECONOMY: euro area annual inflation in April estimated to have risen slightly to 7%
TAXATION: Asia can still make progress on tax transparency, says OECD
COMPETITION: European Commission approves two Dutch aid schemes supporting closure of farms to limit pollution in Natura 2000 areas
EXTERNAL ACTION
DEVELOPMENT: impact of war in Ukraine and reform of multilateral banks on agenda of EU ministers on 4 May
SOMALIA: state-building and democratisation, operational priorities of EU-Somalia partnership
HUMANITARIAN AID: Horn of Africa, EU releases €25 million in emergency aid for the most vulnerable
IRAN: EU calls upon Iran not to execute German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd
MOLDOVA: European Commission proposes to extend suspension of tariffs on all Moldovan exports to EU
Russian invasion of Ukraine
TRADE: Commission temporarily bans imports of four Ukrainian agricultural products into five Member States
UKRAINE: reconstruction of Ukraine’s infrastructure raises question of mobilising frozen Russian assets
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
HEALTH: Covid-19, Warsaw asks Pfizer to renegotiate vaccine contracts
HEALTH: ECDC presents lessons learned from Covid-19 pandemic
NEWS BRIEFS
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: House of Representatives of Bosnian-Croat Federation appoints Nermin Nikšić as head of its new government
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: launch of European Diversity Month
ENERGY: European Commission launches call for evidence on its future heat pump action plan
ENERGY: ACER asks ENTSO-E to take cross-zonal capacities as per Ten-Year Network Development Plan into account consistently
ENVIRONMENT: European Commission consults on further restriction on use of mercury
GUATEMALA: EU to observe Guatemalan legislative elections
MEDIA: Martina Vidaić wins 2023 EU Prize for Literature
MEDIA: Sabine Verheyen’s position on Media Freedom Act under fire from European associations
DIGITAL: ‘gatekeeper’ designation under DMA—companies will have to notify European Commission of their services before 3 July
DIGITAL: Italian Data Protection Authority lifts its ban on ChatGPT artificial intelligence system access
FISHERIES: European Commission proposals on EU/Madagascar agreement
FISHERIES: European bottom fishing sector to sound alarm against EU policies on 9 May
CORRIGENDUM
COMPETITION: French aid measures for STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries
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