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  Management report 2017
  Annual activity report for the financial year 2017 Article 66(9) of the Financial Regulation

  • Published: 2018-08-17
  • Corporate Author(s): Court of Justice of the European Union
  • Subject: activity report, approximation of laws, Court of Justice of the European Union, EU law - national law, judicial power, legislation, operation of the Institutions
• COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Part II: Member States Accompanying the document Monitoring the application of European Union law 2016 Annual Report

  • Published: 2018-08-30
  • Corporate Author(s): European Commission ; Secretariat-General (European Commission)
  • Subject: activity report, approximation of laws, EU control, EU Member State, infringement procedure (EU), national implementing measure
• REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission pursuant to Directive 2014/40/EU on the approximation of the laws and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products

  • Published: 2018-08-08
  • Corporate Author(s): Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (European Commission) ; European Commission
  • Subject: approximation of laws, consumer information, delegated legislation, European Commission, labelling, market approval, powers of the institutions (EU), public health, tobacco, tobacco industry
• Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the marketing and use of explosives precursors, amending Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 98/2013 on the marketing and use of explosives precursors [COM(2018) 209 final — 2018/0103 (COD)]

  Latest edition.
  • Published: 2018-07-11
  • Corporate Author(s): European Economic and Social Committee
  • Subject: approximation of laws, chemical product, civil defence, dangerous substance, explosive, illicit trade, market approval, marketing standard, terrorism, trade restriction
• Corrigendum to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/574 of 15 December 2017 on technical standards for the establishment and operation of a traceability system for tobacco products (OJ L 96, 16.4.2018)

  • Published: 2018-10-08
  • Corporate Author(s): Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (European Commission) ; European Commission
  • Subject: approximation of laws, consumer information, information storage and retrieval, labelling, marketing standard, packaging, technical standard, tobacco, tobacco industry, traceability
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  Study on the costs and benefits of minimum harmonisation under the Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive 1999/44/EC and of potential full harmonisation and alignment of EU rules for different sales channels
  

  The study is part of the ongoing Fitness Check of EU consumer and marketing law, focusing on the Consumer Sales and Guarantees (CSG) Directive 1999/44/EC which is a minimum harmonisation Directive. The study assessed the costs and benefits of Member States going beyond the minimum rules laid dow...

  The study is part of the ongoing Fitness Check of EU consumer and marketing law, focusing on the Consumer Sales and Guarantees (CSG) Directive 1999/44/EC which is a minimum harmonisation Directive. The study assessed the costs and benefits of Member States going beyond the minimum rules laid down by the Directive, as well as the impacts of potential full harmonisation and alignment of EU rules for different sales channels (distance versus face-to-face sales channels). It specifically focused on four elements of the CSG Directive, namely, the two-year legal guarantee (longer in five Member States), notification obligation within a specific period (not applicable in seven Member States), the six-month period for the reversal of burden of proof (longer in three Member States) and a free choice of remedies (applicable in five Member States) as opposed to a hierarchy. The study finds strong benefits of alignment of the rules for face-to-face and distance sales. Impacts of harmonisation and alignment are likely to vary across Member States. Alignment of rules for face-to-face and distance channels and full harmonisation would have an overall positive impact on consumers and businesses in the Single Market.

  • Published: 2018-08-02
  • Corporate Author(s): Civic Consulting ; Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (European Commission) ; Grimaldi Studio Legale ; ICF ; Ipsos MORI
  • Subject: approximation of laws, consumer goods, consumer policy, consumer protection, cost-benefit analysis, cross-border cooperation, direct selling, distance selling, EU Member State, guarantee, international trade, sale, single market
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  Study on the costs and benefits of minimum harmonisation under the Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive 1999/44/EC and of potential full harmonisation and alignment of EU rules for different sales channels
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  The study is part of the ongoing Fitness Check of EU consumer and marketing law, focusing on the Consumer Sales and Guarantees (CSG) Directive 1999/44/EC which is a minimum harmonisation Directive. The study assessed the costs and benefits of Member States going beyond the minimum rules laid dow...

  The study is part of the ongoing Fitness Check of EU consumer and marketing law, focusing on the Consumer Sales and Guarantees (CSG) Directive 1999/44/EC which is a minimum harmonisation Directive. The study assessed the costs and benefits of Member States going beyond the minimum rules laid down by the Directive, as well as the impacts of potential full harmonisation and alignment of EU rules for different sales channels (distance versus face-to-face sales channels). It specifically focused on four elements of the CSG Directive, namely, the two-year legal guarantee (longer in five Member States), notification obligation within a specific period (not applicable in seven Member States), the six-month period for the reversal of burden of proof (longer in three Member States) and a free choice of remedies (applicable in five Member States) as opposed to a hierarchy. The study finds strong benefits of alignment of the rules for face-to-face and distance sales. Impacts of harmonisation and alignment are likely to vary across Member States. Alignment of rules for face-to-face and distance channels and full harmonisation would have an overall positive impact on consumers and businesses in the Single Market.

  • Published: 2018-08-02
  • Corporate Author(s): Civic Consulting ; Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (European Commission) ; Grimaldi Studio Legale ; ICF ; Ipsos MORI
  • Subject: approximation of laws, consumer goods, consumer policy, consumer protection, cost-benefit analysis, cross-border cooperation, direct selling, distance selling, EU Member State, guarantee, international trade, sale, single market
• Case C-52/17: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 7 August 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Austria) — VTB Bank (Austria) AG v Finanzmarktaufsichtsbehörde (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Approximation of laws — Directive 2013/36/EU — Articles 64, 65 and 67 — Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 — Article 395(1) and (5) — Supervision of credit institutions — Supervisory powers and powers to impose penalties — Large exposure limits — Legislation of a Member State under which interest is levied where those limits are exceeded — Regulation (EU) No 468/2014 — Article 48 — Attribution of areas of competence between the European Central Bank (ECB) and national authorities — Formally initiated supervisory procedure)

  • Published: 2018-08-07
  • Corporate Author(s): Court of Justice (Court of Justice of the European Union)
  • Subject: administrative sanction, approximation of laws, banking supervision, competence of the institution, credit institution, financial supervision, interest, supervisory power
• Joined Cases C-259/16 and C-260/16: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 31 May 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per il Lazio — Italy) — Confederazione Generale Italiana dei Trasporti e della Logistica (Confetra) (C-259/16), Associazione Nazionale Imprese Trasporti Automobilistici (C-259/16), Fercam SpA(C-259/16), Associazione non Riconosciuta Alsea (C-259/16), Associazione Fedit (C-259/16), Carioni Spedizioni Internazionali Srl (C-259/16), Federazione Nazionale delle Imprese di Spedizioni Internazionali — Fedespedi (C-259/16), Tnt Global Express SpA (C-259/16), Associazione Italiana dei Corrieri Aerei Internazionali (AICAI) (C-260/16), DHL Express (Italy) Srl (C-260/16), Federal Express Europe Inc. (C-260/16), United Parcel Service Italia Ups Srl (C-260/16) v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni, Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Postal services in the European Union — Directive 97/67/EC — Articles 2, 7 and 9 — Directive 2008/6/EC — Definition of ‘postal service provider’ — Haulage, freight-forwarding and express mail undertakings providing services involving the clearance, sorting, transport and distribution of postal items — Authorisation required for the provision of postal services to the public — Contribution to the costs of providing universal service)

  • Published: 2018-05-31
  • Corporate Author(s): Court of Justice (Court of Justice of the European Union)
  • Subject: approximation of laws, freedom to provide services, postal service, principle of proportionality, provision of services, right of establishment
• Council Decision (EU) 2018/1303 of 18 September 2018 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Association Committee in Trade configuration established by the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Georgia, of the other part, regarding the update of Annex III (Approximation) concerning rules applicable to standardisation, accreditation, conformity assessment, technical regulation and metrology, and Annex XVI (Public Procurement) to the Agreement

  • Published: 2018-09-18
  • Corporate Author(s): Council of the European Union
  • Subject: approximation of laws, association agreement (EU), Association Council (EU), EAEC, Georgia, metrology, public contract, revision of an agreement, standardisation