Late payments affect every sector and every Member State and disproportionately impact SMEs. Each year across Europe, thousands of SMEs go bankrupt waiting to be paid, jobs are lost and the EU's competitiveness is negatively impacted. With these revised rules, the EU is stepping up its fight...

In 2013, the European Commission (EC) set out its strategy to integrate maritime transport emissions in the EU greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction policies (COM(2013) 479), which is a three-step strategy: 1. The implementation of a system that requires large ships using EU ports to monitor, report...

Late payments affect every sector and every Member State and disproportionately impact SMEs. Each year across Europe, thousands of SMEs go bankrupt waiting to be paid, jobs are lost and the EU's competitiveness is negatively impacted. With these revised rules, the EU is stepping up its fight...

This Guide offers practical guidance from a general perspective. It is not intended to direct the interpretation of the Maintenance Regulation in individual cases. This is for each national court, applying the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (the CJEU). Moreover, it is not...

The Single Resolution Mechanism is the EU's system for managing the resolution of failing banks in the euro area. The Single Resolution Board plays a key role in this, together with the Commission and Council. The Board oversees the Single Resolution Fund, which can be used to support bank...

This report presents a review of economic and managerial literature about mandatory and voluntary sustainability standards. The review addresses the study question: "Do mandatory standards or voluntary standards do better job in stimulating the transition to sustainable agri-food system?". A...

This report presents therefore an analysis on how telework is currently regulated in Europe, based on the information gathered from the above-mentioned sources and an additional literature review. The report starts with an introductory overview of EU regulation post-COVID-19. The next section...

Under the EU Deforestation Regulation, only products that are legal in the country of production and not linked to deforestation and forest-degradation after 31 December 2020 can be placed on the EU market. Smallholders producing cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soya and wood for the EU...

This is the final report of the analysis of public feedback on the proposal of the European Commission for a Regulation on the sustainable use of plant protection products (PPPs), conducted by Ramboll Management Consulting on behalf of the European Commission, Directorate-General for Health and...

ECHA's role as independent agency in implementing various EU legislations has generated a 15 years' wealth of scientific and technical insights and competences. With the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS), a renewed policy focus has emerged that invited ECHA to revise and sharpen its...