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The Committee held an exchange of views with Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton on the current situation of crisis. Mr. Breton stressed out the need to protect the internal market and ensuring the circulation of goods within the EU and presented the actions EC has overtaken in this regard, such as work to ensure the increased production of protective equipment and medical devices, issuing standards to ensure quicker placing on the market of these essential products,

On 2 April, the Conference of Presidents updated the EP’s calendar to introduce a plenary session on 16-17 April and additional dates for remote meetings for EP governing bodies, committees and political groups. The current precautionary measures adopted by the European Parliament to contain the spread of COVID-19 do not affect work on legislative priorities. Core activities are reduced, but maintained to ensure that the institution’s legislative, budgetary, scrutiny functions are maintained.

In a letter addressed on Monday to the EU Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager (Europe Fit for the Digital Age), Commissioners Thierry Breton (Internal Market) and Didier Reynders (Justice), as well as to the Croatian Presidency of the Council, Parliament’s Internal Market Committee calls for further action to be taken to tackle the COVID-19 crisis.