The European Commission is undertaking an evaluation on the functioning of the cooperation in customs matters between the EU and China, based on the Agreement between the European Community and the Government of the Peoples’ Republic of China on Cooperation and Mutual Administrative Assistance i...
The following tables provide an overview of the transposition legislation individual MS have adopted to implement Directive 2008/114 on the identification and designation of European critical infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve their protection. The tables contain informati...
In March 2018, the United States (US) President Donald Trump announced the imposition of a tariff on US imports of steel and aluminium products. This Science for Policy report sheds light on the possible macroeconomic impacts of this policy, focusing in particular on exports, value added (VA), o...
This case study covers Measure 3.5 Pilot Operations. Based on the analysis of the EFF intervention logic, the objectives of this measure were: 1. Strengthened protection and enhancement of the environment 2. Strengthened competitiveness of fishing fleet The objectives of this case study are to d...
The European Parliament's Ex-Ante Impact Assessment Unit routinely undertakes initial appraisals of Impact Assessments accompanying the European Commission's legislative proposals when they arrive in Parliament, to check that certain criteria are met and to identify their basic methodological st...
This report presents methodological aspects and the results of a horizon scanning exercise where the text mining capacities of the Joint Research Centre’s "Tool for Innovation Monitoring" were harnessed to analyse bibliometric data in the field of agricultural research and innovation in Africa i...
The importance of education and training - in order to achieve smart, sustainable and inclusive growth - are recognised in the Europe 2020 strategy. Two of the EU2020 headline targets focus specifically on education and training: reducing early school leaving to below 10% and 40% of 30-34 year o...
Beside large capital flows, euro area financial centres feature important and growing trade surpluses. We investigate the composition of their gross trade flows and disentangle domestic and foreign production content that is directly traded with final absorbing economies or embedded in intermediates...
The European Commission is undertaking an ex-post evaluation of Regulation (EU) 376/2014 on the reporting, analysis and follow-up on occurrences in civil aviation. This evaluation support study provides the Commission with an analytically robust ex-post evaluation of the Regulation as an evidenc...
Citizens don’t want a Europe that intrudes on their everyday lives unnecessarily. This is why the Juncker Commission doesn’t regulate things like oil cans or showerheads, but concentrates on what we can do better together rather than alone - such as tackling the refugee crisis, securing our exte...
