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As part of the preparation of the EU budget for 2021-2027, the European Commission put forward a new set of regulations to shape the future EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on 1 June 2018. The proposal for a regulation on the financing, management and monitoring of the CAP provides the legislative framework for adapting the financing, management and monitoring rules to a new CAP delivery model. This seeks to achieve more subsidiarity and simplification, with greater responsibility given to Member ...

EU rules on fit and proper are a patchwork of high-level principles and national law. Deep cross-country differences affect both the assessment process and the criteria used. New Level 1 measures are required to impose common requirements on knowledge, experience, good repute, independence and conflicts of interest, and to unify procedural aspects across Member States. Meanwhile, the ECB should assign a public score to individual board members and disclose the motivations behind its fit and proper ...

Access to financial data by law enforcement authorities is seen as critical for preventing crime. This briefing looks at the specific provisions contained in EU instruments that have facilitated this access, and examines the exchange of financial data at EU level but also with non-EU countries. It shows that such access has significantly broadened in the last decades. The private sector, which collects most of these data, has been increasingly regulated; as a result, the sources of information available ...

This briefing focuses on the not yet delivered delegated acts under the Capital Requirements Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD IV) and the Capital Requirements Regulation (EU) 575/2013 (CRR) Both contain empowerments for the Commission to adopt ‘level 2’ measures (e.g. delegated acts and regulatory technical standards), the majority - but not all - have been completed to date.

The EU framework for investment firms consists of several legislative acts: the Directive on markets in financial instruments (MiFID), the Capital Requirements Regulation 575/2013 (CRR) and the Capital Requirements Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD). Together with various international rules, these legislative acts lay down rules on the activity of credit institutions and their prudential supervision. In 2016, the European Commission submitted two legislative proposals amending the CRR and the CRD and it ...

Europos finansų priežiūros institucijų sistema (EFPIS) yra daugiasluoksnė mikrolygio ir makrolygio rizikos ribojimo institucijų sistema, kuri apima Europos sisteminės rizikos valdybą, tris Europos priežiūros institucijas ir nacionalines priežiūros institucijas. EFPIS tikslas – užtikrinti nuoseklią ir darnią ES finansinę priežiūrą. Ši priežiūros sistema šiuo metu keičiama dėl bankų sąjungos įsteigimo ir Jungtinės Karalystės pasitraukimo iš ES.

Tvarus ekonomikos augimas – tai vienas pagrindinių Europos Sąjungos tikslų. Visame pasaulyje trūksta gamtos išteklių, todėl dabar gamintojų ir vartotojų pagrindiniu uždaviniu tapo siekis mažesnėmis sąnaudomis gauti daugiau. Tam, kad būtų galima įveikti šį uždavinį, ES numatė daugybę įvairių politikos priemonių ir iniciatyvų, kuriomis siekiama užtikrinti tvarų vartojimą ir gamybą. Jos turėtų padėti pagerinti bendrą produktų aplinkosauginį veiksmingumą per visą jų gyvavimo ciklą, skatinti geresnių ...

As a major international actor in development cooperation, the EU has in the European Development Fund (EDF) its largest geographic instrument in this policy area, with €30.5 billion allocated to the 11th EDF for 2014-20. In recent years, around 30% of total EU spending on external assistance, including spending on both development and other categories, has been channelled through the EDF. The Fund focuses on countries and territories which have special historical ties with some Member States: the ...

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Project is an international scientific undertaking between seven cofinancing Parties intended to demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear fusion as a power source. Fusion for Energy (F4E) is the Domestic Agency charged with providing the EU contribution to the ITER International Organisation. ITER, and subsequently, F4E costs have increased substantially from original estimates, because of a number of internal and external drivers. While ...

This study aims at defining the key best-practices regarding governance, internal and external controls and transparency that could be applied to the European Endowment Fund. The survey was conducted using a benchmark approach.