Last Month in Brief

10 June: The European Commission opens an in-depth investigation under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation into the proposed acquisition by Emirates Telecommunications Group of PPF Telecom Group (see Deep Dive 1).

12 June: The European Commission provisionally concludes that China's electric vehicle value chain benefits from unfair subsidies and announces the imposition of provisional countervailing duties on imports of battery vehicles from China (see Deep Dive 2).

13-14 June: Ursula Von Der Leyen and Charles Michel participate in the G7 meeting in Apulia (Italy) to discuss cooperation in the use of Artificial Intelligence and the fight against non-market national policies and practices.

18 June: The Council of the EU adopts its negotiating position on a new regulation on the use of railway infrastructure capacity as pa of the Commission’s ‘greening freight’ package.

19 June: The European Commission identifies 115 Regional Innovation Valleys which can benefit from EU funding to strengthen regional innovation ecosystems and the EU’s innovation performance.

20 June: The European Commission launches the European Solar Academy to train workers in the solar photovoltaic sector under the Net-Zero Industry Act.

24 June: Under the Digital Markets Act the European Commission sends its preliminary findings to Apple concerning its App Store rules and opens an additional non-compliance investigation against the company concerning new contractual requirements for third-pa y app developers and app stores.

25 June: The European Commission opens a formal investigation to assess whether Microsoft breached EU antitrust rules with anti-competitive practices concerning its Teams application.

27 June: EU leaders meet for a European Council meeting to appoint the officials for the three top jobs for the next institutional cycle, to adopt the Strategic agenda 2024-2029, to discuss initiatives to strengthen security and defence policies and to strengthen the competitiveness of European industry (see Deep Dive 3).

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