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CAP horizontal regulation: Financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy for 2023-2027
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 ...
Is the current “fit and proper” regime appropriate for the Banking Union?
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 ...
Law enforcement access to financial data
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 ...
Delegated and Implementing Measures in the Banking Field-Forthcoming Level 2 Acts under CRD IV and CRR (update 2018)
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.
Revised framework for investment firms
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 ...
Det Europæiske Finanstilsynssystem (ESFS)
Det Europæiske Finanstilsynssystem (ESFS) er et flerniveausystem af mikro- og makrotilsynsmyndigheder, som omfatter Det Europæiske Udvalg for Systemiske Risici, de tre europæiske tilsynsmyndigheder og de nationale tilsynsmyndigheder. ESFS har til formål at sikre et konsekvent og sammenhængende finansielt tilsyn i EU. Dette tilsynssystem er under forandring som følge af indførelsen af bankunionen og Det Forenede Kongeriges udtræden af EU.
Bæredygtigt forbrug og bæredygtig produktion
Bæredygtig vækst er et af Den Europæiske Unions vigtigste mål. Stillet over for global knaphed på naturressourcer er »udret mere med mindre« blevet hovedudfordringen for producenter og forbrugere. For at imødegå denne udfordring har EU indført en lang række politikker og initiativer med sigte på bæredygtigt forbrug og bæredygtig produktion. Disse har til formål at forbedre produkters miljøpræstationer gennem hele deres livscyklus, stimulere efterspørgslen efter bedre produkter og produktionsteknologier ...
European Development Fund - Joint development cooperation and the EU budget: out or in?
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 ...
Potential for Reorganization within the ITER Project to Improve Cost-Effectiveness
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.