Eric Mamer @MamerEric@respublicae.eu
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Joined Apr 2022
With the EU Pillar of #SocialRights, the @EU_Commission has put forward concrete actions to keep building a strong social Europe.
Today we focus on:
➖asbestos ⤵️
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5679
➖minimum income ⤵️
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5706
What’s new?
🆕 rules for circular economy business models
🆕 rules for products in the digital age
🆕level playing field between 🇪🇺 and non-🇪🇺 manufactures
🆕 consumers on an equal footing with manufacturers
Who will benefit?
🟢companies➡️ to have legal certainty and invest in innovative products
🟢consumers ➡️ to get fair compensation when defective products cause harm
Q&A on the revision of Product Liability Directive ⤵️
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_22_5791
In the 🇪🇺 manufacturers are liable for defective products since 1985 via Product Liability Directive
Today, the @EU_Commission has revised existing rules to adapt them to:
🦾the digital age
🔄circular economy, and
⛓the impact of global supply
For the first time, the #ArtificialIntelligence Liability Directive will introduce specific rules for damage caused when AI is involved:
📚 Alleviating the burden of proof for victims
🔎 Introducing a right of access to evidence
➡️check out our Q&A⤵️
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_22_5793
The AI Act laid down rules to prevent damage, but what if harm happens anyway?
Today, we adopted 2 proposals to modernise our EU liability framework, adapted to the challenges of the digital age:
✅Better protect consumers
✅Foster innovation and trust
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5807
RT @vonderleyen: Spoke to @Statsmin Frederiksen on the sabotage action #Nordstream.
Paramount to now investigate the incidents, get full clarity on events & why.
Any deliberate disruption of active European energy infrastructure is unacceptable & will lead to the strongest possible response.
Two packages on this week’s @EU_Commission College agenda:
1⃣ Social pillar implementation
🔹Recommendation on minimum income
🔹Protection of workers from asbestos
2⃣ Adapting liability rules
🔹Product liability
🔹Artificial intelligence liability
Early cancer detection saves lives and gives more treatment options. Today, the @EU_Commission is proposing new recommendations on cancer screening after 19 years to match scientific progress.
What is new?
⚕️More and better screenings
🩺Gradually introduce new types of cancer
🧪Up-to-date guidelines on access, quality, and diagnostics
More details ➡️https://europa.eu/!htqgC8
How? With a new governance systems for different levels of risks:
🟢contingeny: planning when there is no crisis
🟠vigilance: when an event requires vigilance measures
🔴emergency: if a crisis leads to a severe impact on the #SingleMarket
Press release⤵️ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_5443
The new instrument will ensure that:
✔️the free movement of goods, services and people is preserved, and
✔️crisis-relevant goods and services are available in times of crisis
Crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic can disrupt the normal functioning of the #SingleMarket and the 🇪🇺 economy
This is why today the @EU_Commission presents a Single Market Emergency Instrument to make sure the EU is better prepared to face possible emergencies in the future 🚨
This includes:
🔹 a suspension of 65% of the commitments for three operational programmes under cohesion policy
🔹 no new legal commitments for public interests trusts
Pending implementation of the remedial measures by Hungary, the @EU_Commission College has today decided to propose budget protection measures to the Council under the rule of law conditinality regulation.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5623
RT @EU_Commission: 🔴 LIVE read-out of today's #vdLCommission meeting with Commissioner @JHahnEU.
Press conference on the protection of the EU budget in Hungary (Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism). https://nitter.eu/i/broadcasts/1ynJOaLMMmzKR
This Sunday @EU_Commission College will meet to agree on ⤵️
🔹 the next steps regarding the protection of the EU budget in Hungary &
🔹 a new EU approach on cancer screening
Today once more we stand up for media freedom.
With the European #MediaFreedomAct, we will establish safeguards against political interference and surveillance so that journalists can do their jobs.
➡️https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5504
End of a long day in Kyiv.
🇺🇦 stands and fights for its present and future.
The scars of war are all too present around the capital, but even more so is the calm determination of everyone we met. Impressive.
We will stand by them as long as it takes. 🇺🇦🇪🇺💪
RT @vonderleyen: 🇺🇦 In Kyiv, for my 3rd visit since the start of Russia’s war.
So much has changed.
Ukraine is now a 🇪🇺 candidate.
I’ll discuss with @ZelenskyyUa and @Denys_Shmyhal how to continue getting our economies and people closer while Ukraine progresses towards accession.
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Chief spokesman @vonderleyen Commission. En français sur @MamerEric2
Joined Apr 2022
