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Responding to repeated calls from the European Parliament to propose common Union-wide rules to facilitate the cross-border activity of non-profit organisations (NPOs), the Commission has proposed a directive on European cross-border associations (ECBAs). Parliament is due to vote on the report on this proposal, submitted by its Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), during its March plenary session.

Presented as part of the 'SME relief package', the initiative aims to tighten the EU's late payment framework and improve its enforcement. It proposes, among other things, to convert the current Late Payment Directive into a regulation, a move that several national parliaments contested. National parliaments also raised subsidiarity and proportionality concerns on several provisions. The impact assessment (IA) adequately justifies the need to revise the late payment framework, and substantiates the ...

Overheidsinstanties gaan contracten aan voor werken en diensten. Deze contracten vertegenwoordigen in de EU een handelsvolume van 2,448 miljard euro, waardoor overheidsopdrachten een belangrijke motor zijn voor economische groei, werkgelegenheid en innovatie. Het pakket inzake overheidsopdrachten, dat in 2014 werd vastgesteld, levert jaarlijks een bijdrage van 2,88 miljard euro aan het bbp van de EU. Voorts vormden de EU-richtlijnen inzake overheidsopdrachten een stimulans voor de toename van de ...

Het Europees vennootschapsrecht is gedeeltelijk gecodificeerd in Richtlijn (EU) 2017/1132, en de lidstaten behouden hun eigen vennootschapswetten, die zij van tijd tot tijd herzien om aan de EU-richtlijnen en verordeningen te voldoen. Om het ondernemingsklimaat in de EU te verbeteren, worden voortdurend inspanningen geleverd om een modern en efficiënt rechtskader vast te stellen op het gebied van corporate governance en vennootschapsrecht voor Europese ondernemingen, beleggers en werknemers.

In dit onderzoek wordt ingegaan op grensoverschrijdende claims tot teruggave van roofkunst, met aandacht voor naziroofkunst en koloniale toe-eigeningen, maar ook recentere culturele verliezen als gevolg van illegale smokkel. Hoewel al deze categorieën aanzienlijk van elkaar verschillen, hebben ze ook dingen met elkaar gemeen. In dit onderzoek wordt gekeken naar lacunes in wetgeving en beleid en worden aanbevelingen gedaan over manieren om die te dichten. Dit onderzoek werd in opdracht van de Commissie ...

This study – commissioned by the Policy Department C at the request of the Committee on Legal Affairs – aims at discussing the reasons why the law chosen in commercial contracts is largely non-European and non-member state law. To do so, it first provides an overview of the relevant academic and policy efforts underwent to formulate a European contract law. Then it moves on to touch upon a broad spectrum of matters emerging both from international reports on the adjudication and the functioning of ...

The fishing sector is facing major challenges in the accelerating energy crisis, owing to its high dependency on the stable supply of fossil fuels at low prices. This report reviews the literature on drivers of energy use, identifies potential reduction measures and provides an overview of opportunities for using alternative fuels in the fishing sector. Each measure is evaluated in terms of greenhouse gas emission reduction potential and costs, and challenges and policy options that could facilitate ...

This briefing provides a pre-legislative synthesis of the positions of national, regional and local governmental organisations on the European Commission's listing act proposals. The proposals are designed to support companies' access to public capital markets. This briefing forms part of an EPRS series offering a summary of the pre-legislative state of play and advance consultation on a range of key Commission priorities during its five-year term in office. It seeks to present the current state ...

The impact assessment (IA) accompanying the proposal on corporate sustainability due diligence received two negative opinions from the Commission's Regulatory Scrutiny Board. Additional evidence was provided in a follow-up document to the Board's second opinion, explaining how the IA's preferred options were revised in the proposal, but no change was made to the IA itself. The IA cannot therefore be read without this follow-up document. It also makes the analysis quite difficult to follow, as evidence ...

'This is Europe' – an initiative proposed by the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola – consists of a series of debates with EU leaders to discuss their visions for the future of the European Union. On 22 June, the Prime Minister of Croatia, Andrej Plenković, was the third EU leader to address the Parliament since its Conference of Presidents endorsed the initiative on 28 April. Mr Plenković considered Croatia to be at the centre of EU integration and expressed his support for more ...