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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9548

22 November 2007
Contents Publication in full By article 20 / 29
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/agriculture
Parliamentarians give fairly positive welcome to common agricultural policy “health check”

Brussels, 21/11/2007 (Agence Europe) - The members of the European Parliament's agricultural committee gave a fairly positive welcome to the ideas put forward on 20 November by the European Commission on the common agricultural policy (CAP) “health check”. Most MEPs supported the Commission objectives on: simplification of direct aid and cross-compliance rules (granting aid on the condition of respecting certain criteria, notably environmental); getting rid of obligation to leave land...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: TELECOMS: Thanks to Viviane Reding, European debate becomes transparent
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/ENLARGEMENT: Rehn says Croatia may finalise its negotiations in first half of 2009 and join before end of 2010
(EU) EU/TREATY: “Legal impossibility” for Warsaw to renounce its “opt-out” on charter? Tusk visit to Brussels
(EU) EP/MIDDLE EAST: Exchange of views between Solana, Ferrero-Waldner and conference of presidents of the parliament in view of forthcoming Annapolis conference
(EU) EU/DEVELOPMENT:
(EU) EU/DEVELOPMENT:
(EU) EU/ACP: Disarming different armed groups in eastern Congo priority to prevent unrest across entire Great Lakes region
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL: Integrated industrial approach, patent litigation and research institute on agenda
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Commission recommends tackling basic causes of low growth of productivity in Europe
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Commission suggests several practical ways of improving cooperation among national regulators
(EU) EU/TRADE DEFENCE: Peter Mandelson gives himself extra-time before submitting his new revision proposals
(EU) EU/AUSTRALIA: Draft bilateral agreement on trade in wine
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Neelie Kroes presents proposed transaction procedure for cartels
(EU) EP/JHA: Mr Frattini denies any intention of bringing in profiling to planned “European PNR”, despite MEPs' strong suspicions
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Commission favours rail and cross-border sections
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT: No agreement between Council and Parliament on Community civil aviation safety rules
(EU) EU/REGIONAL: Informal Azores meeting to adopt initial action plan on implementation of EU's territorial agenda
(EU) EU/ACP: Commission under fire over EPAs - “Declaration of Kigali” calls for time to conclude their agreements
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Mixed reactions to revised strategy for internal market
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE: Parliamentarians give fairly positive welcome to common agricultural policy “health check”
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Proposal on 2008 Black sea fishing quotas
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Appeal to Japan not to hunt whales
(EU) EU/FISHERIES:
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/INFORMATION: Europe Direct receives its 100,000th call
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Major legislation published in EU Official Journal
(EU) EU/CONSTRUCTION:
Supplement: EUROPE/Documents No. 2470: Common Agricultural Policy 'Health Check'
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