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The legislation adopted this week by the Parliament, already provisionally agreed in back-room talks with member state officials, now awaits the final rubber stamp from the EU Council before entering into force. Right to repairLawmakers approved on Tuesday (April 23) strengthening the right to repair of household products such as washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and smartphones. The law, backed by 584 votes against 3, seeks to reduce waste and bolster the repair sector. German lawmaker René Repasi (S&D): “The new legislation extends legal guarantees by 12 months when opting for repair, gives...
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Fast-fashion retailer Shein has been designated under the EU’s online platform rules as a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) due to a soaring number of European users, the European Commission said today (26 April). The Singapore-based website will face stricter requirements under the EU's Digital Services Act — and must adopt specific measures to protect users' well-being, and monitor illegal activity such as counterfeit goods. Shein now has over 45 million monthly users within the bloc and will have to comply within four months, so by the end of August, the commission said. The company, founde...
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EU sanctions on Russian oligarchs, designed to put pressure on Vladmir Putin, are facing a host of legal woes – but don’t represent a strategic setback, Euronews has been told. European courts have repeatedly struck down travel bans and asset freezes imposed on those deemed to be in Putin’s inner circle – most recently for bankers Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven. But that may be par for the course, as the bloc struggles to impose record-breaking measures as economic retaliation for the Ukraine war, experts have said. The EU Council, which groups member states, says it has imposed Ukraine-linked ...
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Companies operating in Europe renewable energy and other clean tech sectors are set to enjoy streamlined permitting and public procurement procedures and other policy support in line with the EU’s climate and environmental targets, following a decisive vote today (April 25) in the European Parliament. MEPs backed the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) in the last plenary session in Strasbourg before the EU elections by 361 votes to 121, paving the way for an acceleration of the green industrialisation of the bloc. The new legal framework is intended to boost the domestic production of technologies n...
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It took only 40 days for the European Parliament to give its final nod to a legal package simplifying farm subsidies – a record for reforming a such major policy area. The plan was presented to EU lawmakers in mid-March by the European Commission, in a bid to cut red tape and reduce certain green conditions in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Officials hoped that would appease farmers who have protested across Europe since the end of last year, complaining about red tape and poor incomes. A majority of the parliament backed the package in a vote in Strasbourg on Wednesday (24 April), duri...
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Facebook cannot use publicly available data to target users with personal advertising, Athanasios Rantos, an Advocate General at the EU's Court of Justice, said in an opinion published today (25 April). Austria's Supreme Court had asked the EU judges to clarify whether data protection rules allow the social network to analyse and process personal data for targeted ads without any time bar. The case involves privacy lawyer Max Schrems, an Austrian user of Facebook, which is owned by US tech giant Meta. Schrems filed a complaint about the targeted advertising he received about his sexual orienta...
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Rising militarisation and spending on defence is detracting from efforts to counter climate change, NGOs claimed at an event in Brussels this week. The European Network against Arms Trade (ENAAT) and Transnational Institute (TNI) organised the event following figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) showing the leap in military spending, to consider the impact of European military public procurement on climate change. Nick Buxton, knowledge hub coordinator at TNI cited 2022 estimates by scientists who found the total military carbon footprint to be approximatel...
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The EU has faced recent shortages of various critical drugs, including paracetamol and some antibiotics, due to a range of supply-chain issues, from low production capacity to shortages in key raw materials combined with a rise in demand across the bloc. During the launch of the Alliance in Brussels (24 April), Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said that though shortages are not a new phenomenon, they have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical challenges. “We have to be able to anticipate possible disruptions for the future, to boost our strategic autonomy and also ens...
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The European Parliament has confirmed that plants created using new gene-editing techniques should be removed from the scope of a 2001 directive on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the creation of two new categories of crops to be subject to a lighter regulatory touch. MEPs originally voted in favour of the legislation in February, effectively calling for a regulatory regime where a plant that has only had a limited number of point changes to made to its DNA sequence would be subject to more or less the same rules as a conventionally bred crop strain. The vote was deemed necessary be...
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EU lawmakers today voted 482 to 47 to set up a long-promised EU anti-money laundering agency, as part of a package that would also see large cash payments banned across Europe. The move – taken by MEPs at their last voting session before June elections – means new rules apply for football deals and crypto transactions, as the bloc seeks to repair its reputation after a series of financial-sector scandals. “Dirty money finances terrible crimes,” EU financial services commissioner Mairead McGuinness said, adding that there was an “absolute imperative to improve significantly on the current situa...
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