Legislative acts adopted by the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council

The Council today adopted a set of legislative acts in the following areas:

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  Employment and Social Policy
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  Agriculture and Fisheries
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  Environment
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  Internal Market and Industry
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  Transport

This reflects the outcome of recent negotiations with the European Parliament on a number of files before the end of the current legislature.

The list of acts adopted is set out below and includes links to more detailed information on each file.

Employment and Social Policy

Directive on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union

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  Transparent and predictable working conditions - text of the directive
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  Better working conditions in the EU: Council adopts a directive on more transparency and predictability at work (press release, 13/06/2019)

Regulation establishing a European Labour Authority

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  European Labour Authority - text of the regulation
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  European Labour Authority: Council adopts founding regulation (press release, 13/06/2019)

Directive on work-life balance for parents and carers

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  Work-life balance for parents and carers - text of the directive
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  Better work-life balance for parents and carers in the EU: Council adopts new rules (press release, 13/06/2019)

Agriculture

Regulation amending general food law

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  General food law - text of the regulation
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  Transparency and sustainability of EU scientific assessment of food safety: General Food Law adopted (press release, 13/06/2019)

Fisheries

Regulation on technical measures

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  Technical measures - text of the regulation
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  Final greenlight on new technical and conservation measures in fisheries (press release, 13/06/2019)

Environment

Regulation on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) (recast)

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  Persistent organic pollutants - text of the regulation
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  Council adopts stricter rules on the world's most dangerous chemicals (press release, 13/06/2019)

Regulation on CO2 standards for heavy-duty vehicles

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  CO2 standards for heavy-duty vehicles - text of the regulation
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  Cutting emissions: Council adopts CO2 standards for trucks (press release, 13/06/2019)

Internal Market and Industry

Directive on digital tools and processes in company law

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  Digital tools and processes in company law - text of the directive
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  Setting up a company in the EU to become simple and cheaper (press release, 13/06/2019)

Transport

Directive on the promotion of clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles

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  Promotion of clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles - full text of the directive
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  EU boosts market for clean vehicles with binding procurement targets (press release, 13/06/2019)

Regulation establishing a European Maritime Single Window environment

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  European Maritime Single Window environment - full text of the regulation
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  Cutting red tape for ships - provisional agreement with Parliament on maritime single window (press release, 07/02/2019)

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