Newsletter June 2020

The European Commission published the “Re-open EU” map that provides real-time information on EU internal borders, tourism services and health information. The aim is to support the summer tourism season by providing travellers with relevant information. The map can be found here and is available for all EU countries (and Switzerland) in all official languages. The map was one of the demands voiced by tourism stakeholders (including EBI) to support the start of the tourism…

The BlueGeneration project (in which EBI is a partner) operates a dedicated job and training platform for the blue economy, which includes boat-building and nautical tourism. It can be used free of charge for companies wishing to advertise their job or training offers. It will be promoted to over 8000 young people every year in meetings and school visits. The platform can be accessed here: https://bluegeneration.careers/

The European Parliament and Council of the EU have adopted the Taxonomy Regulation which sets out the harmonised criteria to determine whether an economic activity is environmentally sustainable. The aim is to boost green investments and prevent ‘greenwashing’. It should enable investors to focus on sustainable investment and thereby help the EU become climate neutral by 2050. Under the Regulation, an economic activity can be labelled as environmentally sustainable if it contributes to at least…

The European Commission has imposed anti-subsidy and anti-dumping measures on imports of certain woven and stitched glass fibre fabrics originating in the People's Republic of China and Egypt. Together with previous measures imposed on the same imports in April, the combined duties are now between 54.6% and 99.7% on imports from China (depending on the producer), and 30.9% on imports from Egypt. The full decision by the Commission can be found here.