European Commission
As part of its function to supervise
the implementation of the EU treaties and legislation, the European Commission oversees
the work of EU agencies, including Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard
Agency. For this reason, two representatives of DG HOME represent the Commission
on the Frontex Management Board. The Frontex Regulation also requires that the
European Commission be kept regularly informed of agency activities.
Frontex falls within the
responsibility and portfolio of its “parent DG”, Commission Directorate-General
for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME), and the European Commissioner for
Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Ylva Johansson. In practice,
The EU’s court of justice has dismissed yet another appeal by former European Commissioner John Dalli for compensation for the harm he claimed he suffered as a result of alleged misconduct which led to his resignation from the European Commission in October 2012.
Dalli, a former minister, who was nominated to the EU executive responsible for Health and Consumer Policy, in 2010 had filed a case for “unlawful conduct” by the European Commission as a result of the termination of his office.
The court rejected all the arguments put forward by Dalli and confirmed the appealed judgment handed down in 2019 which had confirmed the original 2015 judgment.
The management of EU recovery funds could be “a challenge for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, as there are fears that fraud may occur in claiming and disposing of these particularly large sums,” Greece’s EU prosecutor, Dimitrios Zimianitis, told EURACTIV’s media partner AMNA.
If these fears come true, it “could lead to a multiplying of cases the Prosecutor’s Office is called upon to handle,” said Zimiantis, who was recently appointed to the EU Prosecutor’s Office by the EU Council.
“Over 3,000 cases of great importance, often of inter-border nature or of organised crime that are now handled by national judicial authorities will be submitted to the new judicial board, which will assume their management,” he added.
Two intermediaries of pharmaceutical companies producing vaccines authorised by the European Medicine Agency (EMA) reportedly offered 27 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to the north-eastern Veneto region instead of the requested four million, several Italian media reported on Tuesday.
“Our hope is to have discovered a new supply way, which all Italy can benefit from,” said Veneto President Luca Zaia of the right-wing Northern League.
“These are extra doses” compared to those purchased by the EU, “which pharmaceutical companies put on the market anyway”, and which are offered “by verified intermediaries with prices in line with those agreed by the EU with Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Moderna.”
The European Commission has approved a €1.2 billion Czech scheme (‘compensation bonus ) to support self-employed and partners in small limited liability companies affected by the coronavirus outbreak. The scheme was approved under the state aid Temporary Framework. Under the scheme, the public support will take the form of direct grants. The aim of the scheme […]