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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13245

8 September 2023
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 32
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EMPLOYMENT / Social
MEPs ready to negotiate with EU Council on occupational exposure values for lead and diisocyanates
Brussels, 07/09/2023 (Agence Europe)

The European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs approved, on Thursday 7 September, by 37 votes to 4 with 3 abstentions, the draft report by Danish MEP Nikolaj Villumsen (The Left) aimed at protecting workers’ health by reducing occupational exposure to lead and diisocyanates.

The Dane described the vote as a great “victory for millions of European workers”, even though the exposure limits for lead date back to 1982 and there are no limits for diisocyanates.

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
COMPETITIVENESS: critical raw materials act – MEPs adopt their position
COMPETITIVENESS: Net-Zero Industry Act, a compromise is emerging among MEPs on scope of text
COMPETITIVENESS: funds allocated to Strategic Technology for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) should be increased, according to rapporteurs for European Parliament text
RESEARCH: a political agreement has been reached on UK’s participation in Horizon Europe and Copernicus
ENERGY: co-legislators are asked by European Commission not to delay pending legislation
ENERGY: positive reception from MEPs for draft report on small modular reactors
ENERGY: at forum on electricity networks, Kadri Simson identifies levers for action for a “resilient” energy transition in Europe
ENERGY: energy transition—E.DSO publishes report to help power distribution grids facing expansion of renewable energies
MIGRATION: Frontex works with third countries in compliance with highest possible human rights standards, assures its Executive Director
AGRICULTURE: organic farming best guarantee of food safety in EU, according to research platform
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES
MEDIA: MEPs approve a common position on European Media Freedom Act
INSTITUTIONAL
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: MEPs toughen up draft ‘Bischoff’ report reforming transparency and ethics rules
EUROPEAN COMMISSION: Commission makes appointments to various departments
SECURITY - DEFENCE
NATO: Jens Stoltenberg stresses importance of cooperation between EU and NATO
Russian invasion of Ukraine
RUSSIA/BELARUS: European Commission publishes ‘anti-circumvention’ guidance to EU sanctions
EXTERNAL ACTION
NIGER: EU denounces obstacles to movements of its ambassador stationed in Niamey
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EMPLOYMENT
SOCIAL: MEPs ready to negotiate with EU Council on occupational exposure values for lead and diisocyanates
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
DIGITAL: CJEU says data collected to combat serious crime cannot be used for investigations into public sector corruption
DIGITAL: protection of personal data, General Court of EU dismisses as inadmissible EDPS’s action against amended ‘Europol’ Regulation
NEWS BRIEFS
AGRICULTURE: European Commission approves two new protected names
ENERGY: electricity market reform, a suggested European electricity price for industry to avoid “subsidy race”
ENERGY: MEPs adopt European Parliament draft report on revision of REMIT regulation
FINANCE: ESMA updates its Reporting Manual on European Single Electronic Format
INDUSTRY: European Committee of Regions announces creation of a political alliance on semiconductors
JUSTICE: Vincent Jamin becomes Eurojust’s new Administrative Director
DIGITAL: Google has announced that, from November, ads generated by its services will indicate whether artificial intelligence tools were used in their design
GMOs: new genomic techniques, Leonore Gewessler ready to mobilise coalition of EU countries opposed to Commission’s proposal
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Laura Ballarín joins S&D Group and Ana Collado joins EPP Group
NEAR EAST: EU denounces Mahmoud Abbas’s remarks about Jews and Holocaust
CIVIL PROTECTION: floods – EU provides satellite maps to help Greece and Bulgaria
ANIMAL HEALTH: MEPs call on European Commission to present animal welfare proposal
SOCIAL: members of European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs validate interinstitutional agreement on asbestos reached before summer