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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9159

25 March 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/consumers
Parliament in favour of 233 million euro consumer action programme 2007-2013, separate from health action programme

Brussels, 24/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - In plenary session on 23 March, the European Parliament supported the objectives of the Community action programme for consumers for the period 2007-2013, but called on the European Commission to divide its proposed overall programme into two parts, one for consumer protection and the other for health (see EUROPE 9154 for the Trakatellis report on the “health” programme). It also called, logically, for a separate budget in the financial perspective...

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THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/SPRING SUMMIT: EU25 agree on priority areas and ambitious targets for implementation of Lisbon Strategy - Austrian Presidency and European Commission express satisfaction
(EU) EP/SPRING SUMMIT/ENERGY: Common energy policy for Europe takes on board most proposals in Green Paper on Energy
(EU) EU/SUMMIT/FUTURE OF EUROPE: Controversial debate between foreign ministers - Special meeting in April
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN UNION/ENLARGEMENT: Jacques Chirac is in favour of enlargement when Union absorption capacity allows
(EU) EU/SPRING SUMMIT/SERVICES: Summit notes Commission's intention to base amended draft directive largely on way EP vote went
(EU) EU/SPRING SUMMIT/SPAIN: Support for Spain following ETA's ceasefire announcement
(EU) EU/SPRING SUMMIT/PROTECTIONISM: Heads of State carefully avoid discussing economic protectionism - Chirac stresses France's openness
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL/BELARUS: EU hardens tone towards Belarus
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL/LANGUAGES/FRANCE:
(EU) EUROPEAN COUNCIL:
(EU) EP/EUROMED:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EP/JHA/TERRORISM/CIA: Victim and journalist statements 'provide considerable evidence that 'extraordinary renditions' had taken place in Europe' - Claudio Fava convinced that Italian and Swedish authorities were involved in illegal renditions
(EU) EU/IMMIGRATION/G6: Interior Ministers considering “integration contracts”
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: Danuta Hübner discusses implementation of Structural Funds with Cypriot delegation
(EU) EU/BIRD FLU: EU reviews measures to combat virus
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE/INDUSTRY: Parliament wants EU to produce crops for non-food use
(EU) EU/CONSUMERS: Parliament in favour of 233 million euro consumer action programme 2007-2013, separate from health action programme
(EU) EP/CONSUMERS: MEPs restore nutritional profile and authorisation procedure in proposal for regulation on nutrition and health claims
(EU) EP/INTERNAL MARKET:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION/ENERGY: Suez calls on Enel to clarify its intentions
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(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL/UNITED STATES:
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(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: IIMG's first interim report identifies several uncertainties surrounding Lamfalussy Process
(EU) EP/FINANCIAL SERVICES: MEPs query legal value of statement on MiFID draft implementing measures
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Commission reaches agreement with EFRAG over work programme on international accounting standards
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission asks Malta to end two off score tax schemes
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