Authors : Bénédicte FAUVARQUE-COSSON (Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II, France ; Trans Europe Experts - TEE) and Martine BEHAR-TOUCHAIS (Sorbonne School of Law, Paris I, France ; Trans Europe Experts - TEE)

Committees : Legal affairs

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Executive summary :

Authors : Ludwig-Bölkow-Systemtechnik (LBST) : M. Altmann, P. Schmidt, and Jenny Winkler HINICIO : A. Brenninkmeijer, J.-C. Lanoix and P. Trucco Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) : C. Egenhofer, A. Behrens, J. Nuñez Ferrer, M. Alessi, A. Georgiev and J. Teusch Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) : S. Uski-Joutsenvou, H. Holttinen, J. Kiviluoma, S. Niskanen, L. Olmos Camacho and J. Barquín Gil

Committees : Industry, research and energy

Summary : The targeted increase of renewable energy sources in the European energy mix to 20% by 2020, and the goal of an 80-95% CO2 emissions reduction by 2050, will require changes to and extensions of the electricity grid. The integration of increasing shares of fluctuating renewable electricity, notably wind and solar power, into the grid is a long-term task that requires major investments, longterm planning at European level and endurance. It also requires a significant increase in the level of coordination of all relevant stakeholders in Europe. Important activities have started, but efforts need to be stepped up, and action accelerated.

Authors : Simonetta IANNOTTI, Member of the Secretariat, Financial Stability Board (FSB) Sony KAPOOR, Managing Director, Re-Define Kern ALEXANDER, Professor, University of Zurich and Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy, University of Cambridge Maria Cristina UNGUREANU, Research Fellow, University of Genoa, Genoa Centre for Law and Finance Isabelle VAILLANT, Director, Cluster Regulation, European Banking Authority (EBA)

Committees : Economic and monetary affairs

Summary : In 2010 the European Parliament adopted 'CRD III' (i.e. Directive 2010/76/EU amending the Capital Requirements Directives) which included some of the strictest rules in the world regarding bankers' bonuses. These rules took effect in January 2011. After one year of application, the ECON Committee felt that the time has come to check if these tough new rules on bonuses are properly implemented and have indeed effectively transformed the bonus culture and ended incentives for excessive risk-taking. This workshop on the Implementation of Banks' Remuneration Rules (CRD III) seeks to gather information on the state of play of implementation, in particular diverging application and the effects thereof, and will try to gain views as to the efficiency of the new framework for bankers' bonuses. The views of the European Commission, as well as the current work of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the European Banking Authority (EBA) and scientific experts in the area are properly taken into account for this evaluation.

Authors : Fondazione Giacomo BRODOLINI, Italy

Committees : Gender equality

Summary : For the enclosed five briefing notes, a gender budgeting methodology has been developed on purpose to analyze in a gender perspective the MFF proposal for 2014-2020. The MFF 2014-2020 assumes a very high relevance in the context of the financial and economic crisis as the EU Budget will finance the EU 2020 Strategy that is conceived as a pivotal tool for recovery. Despite the official declarations according to which:  the EU 2020 Strategy was conceived as an opportunity to reform the economy in order to achieve more gender equality, and  the intention to make gender mainstreaming the pivotal strategy for gender equality, the gender budgeting exercise has revealed that the gender perspective is far from being assumed in all policies, at all levels and at every stage of the policy making process. More precisely the analysis has been conducted the following five gender relevant policy issues: Economic Independence, Education and Training, Health/Wellbeing/ Environment, Fundamental Rights, External Relations showing that the attention to gender is not evenly given by issue and that evaluation/monitoring in a gender perspective is still not as widespread as it should be to ensure an actual implementation of gender mainstreaming. The study has also revealed that it is possible to design and apply a gender budgeting methodology to the EU Budget. This is a very relevant result in view of a future introduction of gender budgeting in the EU budget procedure.