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Croatia's national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP) is an ambitious outline of reforms and investment designed to mitigate the pandemic's socioeconomic fallout and to address the consequences of the two devastating earthquakes of 2020. Following the December 2023 amendment of the Croatian NRRP, to which a REPowerEU chapter was added, the plan's worth reached €10 040.7 million (or 18.5 % of national gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019). The amended plan comes with a grant allocation of €5 779.4 ...

The European Union's fisheries and aquaculture sector contributes about €5.5 billion per year to the EU economy and provides direct employment to around 193 000 fishers and aquaculture farmers across Europe. European fisheries statistics (EFS) have been collected since 1950 and provide official EU-wide data on fleet size and structure, catches, landings and aquaculture production. Statistical data are also used by the EU Market Observatory for Fisheries and Aquaculture to fulfil EU reporting obligations ...

Dieses Dokument ist Teil einer Reihe von Studien, mit denen das Prinzip des Umweltschutzes in verschiedenen Rechtsordnungen aus rechtsvergleichender Perspektive dargestellt werden soll. Nach einer kurzen historischen Einleitung und der Darstellung der einschlägigen Rechtsvorschriften und Rechtsprechung werden der Inhalt, die Grenzen und die mögliche Entwicklung dieser Freiheit analysiert. Die vorliegende Studie hat den Fall Deutschland zum Gegenstand. Hier sind Rechtsvorschriften zum Umweltschutz ...

In order to help national authorities improve their capacity to implement reforms, the European Parliament and the Council adopted a regulation in 2021 that established the Technical Support Instrument (TSI). This note outlines the TSI’s key features, procedures, and reporting requirements, and takes a critical look at the latest TSI Annual Report for 2024, focussing in particular on what it says about support for reforms set out in national Recovery and Resilience Plans.

This paper, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Justice, Civil Liberties and Institutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), proposes a more citizen-centred approach to monitoring and reporting on the application and enforcement of EU law by the European Commission. It would involve widening the lens through which the application and enforcement of EU law is monitored beyond reporting on the infringement procedure under Articles 258-260 TFEU ...