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In 2020, the Commission launched a review of the Solvency II Directive, the EU's legal prudential regulatory framework for (re-)insurance companies, which entered into force in 2016. As one output of the review, the Commission made a proposal in September 2021 for a new directive establishing a framework for recovery and resolution of insurance companies – the 'IRRD proposal'. The IRRD proposal would establish harmonised recovery and resolution tools and procedures, with enhanced cross-border cooperation ...

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The overwhelming majority of businesses in the European Union (EU) are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). They employ almost two thirds of the workforce, create 85 % of all new jobs and generate about three fifths of EU value added. In the period from 2010 to 2020, only a small proportion of EU SMEs said that they raised external financing through capital markets (4 %), while a quarter used bank loans, and a fifth used business-to-business trade credits or internal funds. To make capital ...

En avril, le Parlement européen devrait se prononcer sur l’adoption d’un règlement sur les marchés des crypto-actifs (MiCA), à la suite de l’accord provisoire sur la proposition conclu lors des négociations en trilogue. Ce règlement établirait des règles harmonisées pour les crypto-actifs au niveau de l’Union et apporterait ainsi une sécurité juridique pour les crypto-actifs qui ne sont pas couverts par la législation européenne existante. En renforçant la protection des consommateurs et des investisseurs ...

This study analyses the main provisions of Directive (EU) 2016/680 as well as their implementation within national laws in order to contribute to the European Parliament’s positions and findings regarding the evaluation and review of the Directive. In that context, the study identifies shortcomings and explores potential ways forward through a concrete set of recommendations.This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at ...

Cette étude, commandée par le département thématique des droits des citoyens et des affaires constitutionnelles du Parlement européen à la demande de la commission des pétitions, examine les progrès effectués en matière de reconnaissance mutuelle du statut de personne handicapée dans l’Union européenne et les difficultés rencontrées. La définition et les pratiques de l’évaluation du handicap varient selon les États membres et les différents domaines d’action. Les pétitions de citoyens font part de ...

In May 2022, the European Parliament adopted a draft legislative act proposing to repeal the 1976 European Electoral Act and replace it with a new Council regulation on the election of the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) by direct universal suffrage. The aim is to harmonise a number of rules applicable to European elections, which are currently a combination between the common principles under the European Electoral Act and the different national rules implementing them. Harmonisation would ...

Le marché des obligations vertes, en plein essor dans l’Union européenne, n’a pas encore été harmonisé. Il n’existe pour le moment que des normes privées. En juillet 2021, la Commission a présenté une proposition de règlement sur les obligations vertes européennes . Celle-ci fait partie intégrante d’une orientation législative plus large de l’Union sur la finance durable, qui a engendré l’adoption du règlement sur la taxinomie et du règlement sur la publication d’informations en matière de durabilité ...

This study analyses the clarity and adaptability of EU environmental law and how these could be improved by means of regulatory options, by looking at four core EU environmental directives, in the field of water, air, nature and waste. Recommendations are made to improve the effectiveness of environmental law in European Union The research has been prepared at the request of the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs as asked by the Committee on ...

Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 had a positive impact on animal welfare during transport after its entry into force; however, its implementation is not yet harmonised across the European Union (EU). To investigate its application across Member States and whether the European Commission is enforcing them properly, the European Parliament set up a Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport (ANIT) in June 2020, which led to the drafting of a report and recommendations. A final ...

Under the arrangements set out in Council Directives 93/109/EC and 94/80/EC, EU nationals who live in a Member State other than their own are entitled to participate in European and municipal elections, respectively, in their country of residence. This concerns an estimated 11 million EU citizens of voting age (post-Brexit data). Even if Member States have successfully transposed both directives, voter turnout among mobile citizens remains low compared to nationals. Similarly, only a fraction of ...