Ευρωπαϊκό Κοινοβούλιο:weekly digest

Ευρωπαϊκό Κοινοβούλιο Έγγραφα ολομέλειας: Τροπολογίες 02-08-2020 ΤΡΟΠΟΛΟΓΙΕΣ 022-022 - ´Εκθεση σχετικά με την ετήσια έκθεση για τα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα στον κόσμο το 2004 και την πολιτική της ΕΕ επί του θέματος - A6-0086/2005(022-022) 02-08-2020 09:44 AM CEST ΤΡΟΠΟΛΟΓΙΕΣ 022-022 Πηγή : © Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, 2020 - EK Briefing - The new European cybersecurity competence centre and network - 24-07-2020 03-08-2020 Briefing - The new European cybersecurity competence centre and network - 24-07-2020 24-07-2020 12:00 AM CEST On 13 September 2017, the Commission adopted a cybersecurity package containing a series of initiatives to further improve EU cyber-resilience, deterrence and defence. A year later, the Commission presented a proposal for the creation of a European cybersecurity competence centre with a related network of national coordination centres. The initiative aims to improve and strengthen the EU's cybersecurity capacity, by stimulating the European technological and industrial cybersecurity ecosystem as well as coordinating and pooling necessary resources in Europe. The competence centre is supposed to become the main body that would manage EU financial resources dedicated to cybersecurity research under the two proposed programmes – Digital Europe and Horizon Europe – within the next multiannual financial framework, for 2021-2027. Within the European Parliament, the file was assigned to the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). The report was adopted on 19 February 2019 in ITRE committee and voted by Parliament during the March I 2019 plenary. Although trilogue negotiations took place in March 2019, given the short timeframe until the end of the term no agreement could be reached. It is thus expected that Parliament will confirm its position at first reading during the April II plenary. Πηγή : © Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, 2020 - EK Ευρωπαϊκό Κοινοβούλιο Έγγραφα ολομέλειας: Εκθέσεις 03-08-2020 REPORT on the shortage of medicines – how to address an emerging problem - A9-0142/2020 03-08-2020 12:06 PM CEST REPORT on the shortage of medicines – how to address an emerging problem Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Nathalie Colin-Oesterlé Source : © European Union, 2020 - EP Λεπτομερής ανάλυση - Impact investing in the framework of business and human rights - 31-07-2020 05-08-2020 Λεπτομερής ανάλυση - Impact investing in the framework of business and human rights - 31-07-2020 05-08-2020 12:00 AM CEST Impact investments are an emerging sustainable investment strategy and represent a small and medium enterprise-led approach to development. Impact investments are executed only when a positive financial return can be achieved alongside a measurable positive impact on an individual or societal level. Impact investors thus go beyond more established sustainable investment strategies such as exclusion or integration by explicitly aiming at impact, investing in business models that directly address social issues. Most impact investment funds invest in areas such as healthcare, education or employment and thus improve the situation of the target group. At the same time, however, there is no explicit human rights perspective integrated into the investment process yet. Given the rather small scale of investments which is usually in the range of EUR 200 000 to EUR 5 million per transaction, unintended negative consequences can occur, if only to a very limited extent. This in-depth analysis discusses the impact investing industry in the context of sustainable finance and analyses central aspects of the concept such as financing instruments, the impact measurement process or the impact logic of the investors. The analysis also discusses the limitations impact investing faces such as commercial boundaries of business models, and illustrates modified concepts to mitigate these challenges which are summarised as social finance. Πηγή : © Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, 2020 - EK