Procedural programming

REPORT on the proposal for a Council regulation on the application of Articles 93, 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to certain categories of State aid in the rail, inland waterway and multimodal transport sector - A9[...]

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

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  • Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;
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  • Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to substantially amend the text approved by Parliament;
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  • Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and the Commission.
  • The proposal for Council Regulation (EU) No 327/2022[1] enables the European Commission to exempt from prior notification under EU State aid rules certain types of aid for rail, inland waterway and multimodal transport, with the objective of promoting green transport.
  • Since State aid for rail, inland waterway and multimodal transport falls under Article 93 TFEU, which constitutes a lex specialis relative to Article 107(2) and (3) TFEU, a specific enabling Council regulation for rail, inland waterway and multimodal transport seems justified (Transport Enabling Regulation).
  • Therefore, the proposed Transport Enabling Regulation allows the Commission to adopt block exemption regulations for aid to rail and inland waterway transport and to multimodal transport with the objective of promoting green transport.
  • It was adopted by the European Commission on 6 July 2022, in the context of the revision of the State aid Railway Guidelines.

REPORT on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EU) No 389/2012 as regards the exchange of information maintained in the electronic registers concerning economic operators who move excise goods between Member States for commercia[...]

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

Key Points: 
  • Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;
    3.
  • Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to substantially amend the text approved by Parliament;
    4.
  • Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.
  • Council Regulation (EU) No 389/2012[1] lays down the legal basis for administrative cooperation in the field of excise duties between Member States.
  • Each Member State maintains an electronic database containing registers with the data of the economic operators engaged in the movement of excise goods.
  • Intra-EU commercial movements of excise goods may be performed under suspension of excise duty (i.e.
  • With this proposal, Member States shall align the procedure of exchanging the data of economic operators moving goods under Duty Suspension with the exchange of data of the economic operators moving goods under Duty Paid.

O'Reilly Launches New Book: CockroachDB the Definitive Guide

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

NEW YORK, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cockroach Labs, the company behind the leading cloud-native distributed SQL database CockroachDB , today released its first O'Reilly book: CockroachDB The Definitive Guide available for download and in print here .

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  • NEW YORK, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cockroach Labs, the company behind the leading cloud-native distributed SQL database CockroachDB , today released its first O'Reilly book: CockroachDB The Definitive Guide available for download and in print here .
  • This essential reference guide to CockroachDB shows how to architect apps for effortless scale, bulletproof resilience, and low-latency performance for users anywhere.
  • Part 2: Developing Applications with CockroachDB: Learn the fundamentals of CockroachDB schema design.
  • Part 3: Deploying & Administering CockroachDB: The final section covers releasing CockroachDB applications into the wild.