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The 2021 Work Programme Of The EU Agency For The Cooperation Of Energy Regulators (ACER) Is Published Date 23/12/2020 The Agency’s Programming Document 2021 - 2023, which includes the 2021 Work Programme, was published today following its adoption on 21 December by ACER’s Administrative Board. The document, which also received the favourable opinion of the Agency’s Board of Regulators, is now available online here. ACER’s priorities for 2021 will continue to be: The completion ...

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Description For 22 years, the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been discussing how to govern e-commerce and the data that underpins it. In 2019, some 74 (now 86) nations began to negotiate e-commerce. These talks are conducted in secret and little is known about how they are progressing. However, WTO members issued a wide range of public comments on both the Work Programme on Electronic Commerce and the Joint Statement Initiative on Electronic Commerce from 1998, when the work...

Met dank overgenomen van Europese Commissie (EC), gepubliceerd op donderdag 17 december 2020. Voor 2021 is in totaal 182,9 miljoen euro uitgetrokken voor de promotie van EU-landbouwproducten binnen en buiten de EU. In dit werkprogramma voor het afzetbevorderingsbeleid gaat speciale aandacht uit naar de promotie van producten en landbouwmethoden die meer rechtstreeks aansluiten op de doelstellingen van de Europese Green Deal: biologische producten, groenten en fruit en duurzame landbouw krijgen ...

Item 5 – MC12 Thank you, Chair. The UK would like to join others in thanking Kazakhstan for its continued willingness to host the next Ministerial Conference. While the United Kingdom is willing to be flexible on the date and venue regarding MC12, we believe our collective priority should be to agree the dates as quickly as possible, so that Members can focus on the substance of negotiations. Some Members here today have suggested pushing the date back to December, and we could support that. ...

UNIDO secures over US$21m in GEF funding 11 December 2020 – The Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) 59th Council Meeting, chaired for the first time by the newly appointed CEO, Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, has approved proposals for over US$21m of funding submitted by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The proposals will be developed into fully-fledged projects to support five UNIDO Member States with their transformational shift towards more sustainable developmen...

December 15, 2020 12:26 pm A number of EU agricultural and agri-food representative bodies have written to European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Janusz Wojciechowski to highlight their concerns regarding the Annual Work Programme for 2021. In an open letter which they sent to the commissioner earlier this month, on Monday (December 1), the groups included among their number: COPA-COGECA, the farmer and cooperative representative group; the European Dairy Association (EDA);...

The Arctic is a unique region and is becoming more important in international politics. The region is under high attention as the Arctic itself is changing, mostly due to climate change. However, with the attention, also must come the responsibility, writes Urmas Paet. Urmas Paet is the vice-chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee and chair of the European Parliament-Arctic Friendship Group. Sustainability is a key challenge for all interested in operating in the high north. ...

India and South Africa revive multilateral talks on ecommerce SECTIONS Share Synopsis The proposal aims to counter the initiative by certain WTO members to frame global rules on digital trade. “The submission has been made under the existing multilateral framework to counter negotiations which are outside WTO,” said an official. Agencies New Delhi: Ahead of a key meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) next week, India and South Africa have jointly proposed that the multilateral trade...

Division of east and west between east and west i know that people in the eastern countries central european countries often think they are not accepted as they should be and as ive been working as a defense minister very much in those countries i have a lot of friends and they trust me so i know how to work together that we can improve the relationship and there is a division between north and south has to do with questions of competitiveness and flexibility and we have to solve that too why th...