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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 ...

Sistemul european de supraveghere financiară (SESF) este un sistem multistratificat constituit din autorități de control micro- și macroprudențial, printre care Comitetul european pentru risc sistemic, cele trei Autorități europene de supraveghere și autoritățile naționale de resort. SESF vizează asigurarea consecventă și coerentă a supravegherii financiare în UE. Acest sistem de supraveghere suferă schimbări ca urmare a realizării uniunii bancare, precum și a retragerii Regatului Unit din UE.

Creșterea durabilă reprezintă unul dintre principalele obiective ale Uniunii Europene. Având în vedere penuria mondială de resurse naturale, principala provocare pentru producători și consumatori este „să realizeze mai mult consumând mai puține resurse”. Pentru a aborda această provocare, UE a inițiat numeroase politici și inițiative care au drept obiectiv consumul și producția durabile. Acestea ar trebui să ducă la îmbunătățirea performanței de mediu globale a produselor pe durata ciclului lor de ...

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.