18-01-2017 12:00 AM CET
Consumers
may find it difficult to identify potentially harmful or unfair
practices when entering into a transactional relationship with traders.
Similarly, businesses and enforcement authorities may sometimes have
problems applying and interpreting EU legislation in relation to
commercial practices. While it is the Court of Justice that has
competence to interpret EU legislation, the European Commission
published legally non-binding guidance on the implementation/application
of the Directive on Unfair Commercial Practices in May 2016, which aims
to clarify some of the issues that have arisen since the adoption of
the directive.
Source : © European Union, 2017 - EP
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Tackling the challenges of the EU Customs Code implementation: plenary vote
IMCO - 19-01-2017 - 08:32
The
European Parliament will vote on a motion for resolution on tackling
the challenges of the EU Customs Code (UCC) implementation. The draft
resolution, tabled by the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer
Protection, calls for increased effectiveness of the regulatory
framework and requests the Commission to make a thorough review the
whole policy area, together with a “fitness check” and a new impact
assessment. The vote will take place on 19.01.17 in Strasbourg.
Further information
Procedure file: Tackling the challenges of the EU Customs Code (UCC) implementation
Plenary agenda
Procedure file: Tackling the challenges of the EU Customs Code (UCC) implementation
Plenary agenda
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19-01-2017 01:35 PM CET
Plenary
sessions : All workers should have their basic rights guaranteed,
whatever their form of employment and contract, said MEPs approving
their recommendations on Thursday for the forthcoming proposal on the
“European Pillar of Social Rights”.
Source : © European Union, 2017 - EP
EU Commission blacklist of states at risk of money laundering
19-01-2017 01:26 PM CET
Plenary
sessions : MEPs have voted to return to the EU Commission its blacklist
of countries deemed to be at risk of money laundering and terrorist
financing. The list is too limited, and should be expanded, e.g. to
include territories that facilitate tax crimes, they said before voting
the resolution on Thursday.
Source : © European Union, 2017 - EP
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19-01-2017 12:51 PM CET
Plenary
sessions : Following the election of the President, Vice-Presidents and
Quaestors, the plenary approved the appointment of members to
Parliament’s 22 standing committees on Thursday.
Source : © European Union, 2017 - EP
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19-01-2017 02:18 PM CET
Plenary
sessions : Workers' rights are increasingly coming under pressure due
to developments such as global competition and the digital revolution.
The European Commission is working on plans to improve the situation. On
19 January MEPs adopted a report stating that workers in new type of
jobs should be covered by labour laws. We talked to report author Maria
João Rodrigues, a Portuguese member of the S&D group, on how to
create fair and functioning labour markets and welfare systems.Source : © European Union, 2017 - EP
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19-01-2017 12:00 AM CET
The
bioeconomy refers to the production and extraction of renewable
biological resources and their conversion into food and feed, bio-based
products and bioenergy. Although primarily based on activities carried
out, in some form, for centuries or millennia (such as farming,
fisheries or forestry), the bioeconomy emerged in the past decade as a
knowledge-driven concept aimed at meeting a number of today's
challenges. In the European Union (EU), the bioeconomy sectors have an
annual turnover of about €2 trillion and employ between 17 and 19
million people. They use almost three quarters of the EU land area. A
stronger bioeconomy could trigger growth and jobs, and reduce dependency
on imports. It could contribute to optimising the use of biological
resources, which remain finite although they are renewable. However, it
could also create competition between uses and technologies at various
levels. Besides, the amount of available biomass remains disputed. A
bioeconomy could contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and
improving public health. However, it could also trigger new greenhouse
gas emissions and induce adverse impacts on the environment. The EU
policy framework for the bioeconomy is spread across a number of
policies (agriculture, forestry, fisheries, climate, circular economy
and research). Although a bioeconomy strategy from 2012 aims to ensure
policy coherence, inconsistencies remain. The EU provides funding to
innovative bioeconomy activities through the framework programme for
research (Horizon 2020) and a range of other instruments. The European
Parliament has been supportive of the bioeconomy strategy, while
highlighting the need for sustainability and policy coherence.
Source : © European Union, 2017 - EP
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19-01-2017 12:00 AM CET
Digital
technology is more and more interwoven into every field of public,
private and working life. Consequently, digital skills have a growing
importance for everybody. How can society and its citizens, in
particular vulnerable groups, such as the disabled or the long-term
unemployed, get onto the digital train and stay abreast of new
technologies and methods? How can digital skills at the workplace be
developed and used more efficiently? What has already been done at
Member State and EU level and what are the challenges ahead? This
publication seeks to answer these questions through by describing the
characteristics and types of digital skills, and exploring their
presence in society and on the labour market. It further analyses the
digital literacy of workers, gives an overview of EU-level actions
undertaken in this domain, and points to some best practices aimed at
improving the current situation.
Source : © European Union, 2017 - EP
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19-01-2017 12:00 AM CET
The
CJEU’s Schrems judgment of October 2015, besides declaring the European
Commission’s Decision on the EU-US ‘Safe Harbour’ data transfer regime
invalid, has also settled a number of crucial requirements corresponding
to the foundations of EU data protection. In the assessment of the
Privacy Shield, the new framework for EU-US data transfer, these need to
be taken into account. In less than one year since the CJEU ruling, the
Commission has adopted a new adequacy decision, in which the Privacy
Shield regime is deemed to adequately protect EU citizens. The main
improvements of the Privacy Shield (over its predecessor), as well as
the critical reactions to the new arrangements, are discussed in this
analysis, taking into account, however, that an annual review is
expected to take place by summer 2017, which will also take into account
the coming into effect of the EU General Data Protection Regulation in
2018.
Source : © European Union, 2017 - EP
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19-01-2017 12:00 AM CET
Directive
2004/113/EC is part of EU anti-discrimination law and sets a frame of
minimum rules for ensuring gender equality in the access to and supply
of goods and services. The present assessment critically describes the
genesis and implementation of this Directive across EU Member States, in
particular after the European Court of Justice ‘Test-Achats’ case of
March 2011, which enforced gender equality in the insurance sector. The
notion of ‘indirect discrimination’ requires increased awareness of
multiple factual and legal cause-effect relationships. This appears to
be of particular importance in the health sector, where insufficient
consideration of female conditions could result in severe adverse
consequences. Indirect discrimination in access to goods and services
cannot be curbed by applying this Directive alone, but by pursuing
equality in all policy areas and notably by consequent application of
all other anti-discrimination instruments. Furthermore, the assessment
explores the need to adapt the implementation of the Directive to new
areas, such as the rapidly developing collaborative economy. The
assessment recommends strengthening equality bodies in the Member States
and raising awareness of the rights stemming from this and related
directives. It also suggests that the Commission entrust the European
Equality Law Network with the provision of a thorough and comprehensive
update of its 2009 report on the implementation of Directive
2004/113/EC, which could take into account the questionnaire elaborated
in the final annex of this European implementation assessment.
Source : © European Union, 2017 - EP
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19-01-2017 12:00 AM CET
The
workshop organised by the Policy Department A for the IMCO Committee
aimed at discussing problems in the area of franchising and the impact
of the EU rules on functioning of the franchising contract. It allowed
exchange of views on market conditions in the EU as well as corrective
legislative and regulatory actions.
Source : © European Union, 2016 - EP
Source : © European Union, 2016 - EP
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20-01-2017 09:57 AM CET
Plenary
sessions : Antonio Tajani was elected as the president for the second
half of the parliamentary term during this week's plenary session while
MEPs also chose 14 new vice-presidents. In addition they called for
emergency aid to help refugees cope with freezing temperatures and told
the European Commission to redraw its lists of countries at risk of
money laundering as it was too limited. Read about this and more in our
article.Source : © European Union, 2017 - EP
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