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Europe.Table #122 / 10. February 2022

EU supply chain law + health data and ethics + Jennifer Morgan

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There have been repeated delays, but the directive on sustainable corporate governance is finally due to be adopted on February 23rd. This was preceded by two negative assessments by an internal Commission body, the Regulatory Scrutiny Board. Some of the content of the proposed legislation is already known – for example, it appears that the regulation will go significantly beyond the German Supply Chain Act. Charlotte Wirth gives an overview.

A European Health Data Space that enables the secure and transparent exchange of data in the healthcare sector – the European Health Data Space is to be created by 2025. The French Council Presidency has given advanced consideration to the ethical dimension of the digitization of healthcare and has now presented 16 guiding principles. Eugenie Ankowitsch summarizes the principles and uses studies to show how topical the debate about ethical issues in digitization is.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock described Jennifer Morgan as a “dream appointment”. The former head of Greenpeace will be Baerbock’s special representative for international climate policy. Morgan will thus prepare the climate conferences in the future, but her tasks are likely to go far beyond that. Yet, she will have a number of colleagues who are also entrusted with climate issues at the international level. Given the urgency of the task, one can only hope that the ministries will not get tangled up in a tug-of-war over competencies, writes Lukas Scheid in Apéro.

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What to expect from the EU supply chain law

After several delays, the Commission plans to present the directive on sustainable corporate governance in two weeks. Although Didier Reynders was unable to get his way on many points, the regulation will go well beyond German law. Here’s an overview.
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On February 23rd, it is finally to come, the directive on sustainable corporate governance – almost three years after Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders announced a law. Time and again, there were delays. In the end, the Commission also failed due to two negative assessments by the Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB), a Commission-internal body that is supposed to check the quality of impact assessments of legislative proposals.

This time, the RSB can no longer be the Commission’s undoing: the RSB’s procedures stipulate that after two negative assessments by the body, the vice president in charge, Maroš Šefčovič, can wave through the legislation. That is what he did in this case.

Whether and to what extent the lead Commissioners Thierry Breton and Reynders have taken the RSB’s assessment into account is unclear: the Commission is keeping the panel’s reports under wraps until the College adopts the relevant legislative project. Despite a request from the EU Parliament’s Trade Committee, the Commission would not release the RSB opinion.

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