PECH Newsletter: Trawler - April, 2017 prepared by the Secretariat of the Committee on Fisheries

Highlights - Last meeting of the Trade Committee of the 8th Legislature

“By opening up the EU internal electricity market, citizens and businesses alike should benefit from lower prices and a real choice of energy supplier. We will create a more competitive market with much stronger incentives for new technologies”, said Jerzy Buzek MEP after the adoption of four different pieces of legislation on the electricity market.

The European Parliament agreed today on the opening of negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement with Japan under the condition that it will abolish non-tariff barriers and eliminate obstacles to public procurement for railways and urban transport.