EU Legislation for Business in EU
ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SMALL BUSINESSES
- Implementing the small and medium-sized enterprises initiative
- Transfer of businesses
- The SME Envoy
- Horizon 2020: specific implementing programme (2014-20)
- EU Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
- Promoting youth entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion of young people
- Common rules on the ERDF, ESF, Cohesion Fund, EAFRD and EMFF (2014-2020)
- A simplified business environment
- Micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises: definition and scope
- European social entrepreneurship funds
- A new EU approach to handling business failure and insolvency
- European standardisation
- Boosting entrepreneurship of European SMEs — COSME programme
- A small business act for European SMEs
- SMEs turning environmental challenges into business
- Combating late payment in business dealings
Intellectual property: patents, trademarks, etc.
- Intellectual property rights infringements
- Accession to the World Intellectual Property Organisation treaties
- Harmonised national laws on the protection of designs
- EU rules on protecting trade secrets
- Wider access to copyright material — orphan works
- EU unitary patents – translation arrangements
- Unified Patent Court
- Biotechnological inventions: legal protection
- European Union trade mark
- Intellectual property rights — customs enforcement
- Supplementary protection certificates for medicines and plant protection products
- EU trade mark law (national registrations)
- Community design
- Single EU patent boosts intellectual property protection and cuts related costs - EUR-Lex
- Enforcement of intellectual property rights
Environmental responsibility
- Eco-design for energy-using appliances
- Restriction on the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment
- Safe and effective fertilisers on the EU market
- Ecolabel
- Energy consumption: Framework for labelling rules
- Better environmental performance: European eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS)
- Uniform conditions for the marketing of safe products in the EU (conformity marking)
- SET-Plan for the development of low-carbon technologies
BUSINESSES IN THE INTERNAL MARKET
- Restructuring, insolvency and discharge of debt
- Company law
- Company takeover bids
- European Economic Interest Grouping
- Certain aspects of company law concerning limited liability companies
- A simplified business environment
- Indirect taxes on raising capital
- Single-member private limited liability companies
- European Cooperative Society
- Comparable and clear company financial statements across the EU
- Statute for a European Company
- Common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different European Union countries
- Common system of taxation: mergers, divisions, transfers of assets, exchanges of shares and transfer of the registered office of an SE or SCE
- Shareholder Rights Directive
- Public procurement
- Awards of public contracts and concessions — public supply and public works contracts
- Public procurement in the fields of defence and security
- Common procurement vocabulary
- Awards of public contracts and concessions — water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors
- Electronic invoicing in public procurement
- Public purchasing — rules for water, energy, transport and postal sectors
- Concession contracts in the EU
- Intellectual property
- WTO: agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property
- Intellectual property rights infringements
- Ensuring technology transfer agreements respect competition rules
- EU rules on protecting trade secrets
- Accession to the World Intellectual Property Organisation treaties
- Unified Patent Court
- Fighting violations of EU intellectual property rights in non-EU countries
- Legal protection: Topographies of semiconductor products
- Enforcement of intellectual property rights
- Enforcing intellectual property rights: EU action plan
- Copyright and related rights
- Copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market
- Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances
- Copyright and related rights: term of protection
- Resale right for the benefit of the author of an original work of art
- Computer programs — legal protection
- Rental, lending and certain other rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property
- Copyright and related rights: satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission
- Protecting electronic pay services against piracy
- Legal protection: databases
- Inventions, trade marks & designs
- EU trade mark law (national registrations)
- Copyright and related rights in the information society
- European Union trade mark
- EU unitary patents – translation arrangements
- Wider access to copyright material — orphan works
- Biotechnological inventions: legal protection
- Harmonised national laws on the protection of designs
- Community design
- Single EU patent boosts intellectual property protection and cuts related costs - EUR-Lex
SINGLE MARKET FOR SERVICES
- Authorisation of electronic communications networks and services
- Electronic road tolls — interoperability of national systems
- Open internet access and roam-like-at-home
- Agricultural and food supply chain — unfair business-to-business trading practices
- Accessibility of products and services
- Regime for the remuneration of directors of listed companies
- Electronic road tolls — compatibility between countries
- Postal services in the EU
- EU cross-border parcel delivery services
- The supply of shipping services
- Access to electronic communications networks
- The EU’s services directive
- Inland navigation: non-resident carriers
- Access to the international market for coach and bus services
- E-commerce - standard EU rules
- European standardisation
- Principle of equal treatment of men and women outside the employment market
- Ensuring the sustainable supply and use of raw materials
- Stepping up the enforcement of EU legislation on the posting of workers
- Regulatory framework for electronic communications
- Liability insurance of air carriers
- Insurance distribution — new rules from 2018
- System for the recognition of professional qualifications
- Freedom to provide services within the EU (ocean trade)
- Air service agreements between EU and non-EU countries
- Remuneration policies in the financial services sector
- Sea transport — supply of services, competition, unfair pricing and access to ocean trade
- Data protection in the electronic communications sector
- Affordable telecommunications services - users' rights
SINGLE MARKET FOR GOODS
- Free movement of goods — general rules
- Accessibility of products and services
- Mutual recognition of goods
- Obstacles to trade: Rapid Intervention Mechanism
- Accreditation and market surveillance
- Technical harmonisation
- EU type-approval legislation with regard to the UK withdrawal
- Mutual recognition of goods
- Measuring instruments and methods of metrological control — common rules
- Harmonisation of civil aviation requirements and procedures
- Integration of environmental aspects into European standardisation
- Product safety: general rules
- Uniform conditions for the marketing of safe products in the EU (conformity marking)
- Sectors harmonised in line with the new approach
- Pharmaceutical and cosmetic products
- Clinical Trials
- Supplementary protection certificates for medicines and plant protection products
- High safety standards and streamlined procedures for EU clinical trials
- Duty free treatment
- Colouring matters for medicinal products (recast)
- Safe medicines for Europeans — European Medicines Agency
- Protection of laboratory animals
- Safer cosmetics for Europeans
- Good laboratory practice: inspection and verification of laboratory studies on all chemicals
- Good laboratory practice: tests on chemical substances
- Public-private partnership in innovative medicines
- Medicinal products for human consumption
- Medicines for rare diseases - orphan drugs
- Ingredients used in medicines – guidance for importers and distributors
- European Pharmacopoeia - EUR-Lex
- Export of generic medicines to developing countries: compulsory licences
- EU rules for new medical products based on genes and cells
- Medicines and investigational medicines for human use — safe production
- Medicinal products for paediatric use
- EU rules on the authorisation, import and production of medicines for humans
- Transparency of decisions regulating the prices and the reimbursement of medicinal products in EU countries
- Medicinal products for veterinary use
- Authorisation, import and manufacture of veterinary medicines
- EU rules on the authorisation, import and production of veterinary medicines
- Veterinary medicines — good manufacturing practice
- Residues of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin
- Preparation and marketing of medicated feedingstuffs for animals
- Chemical products
- Dangerous substances & preparations
- Risk management — chemicals
- Protecting health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants
- Exposure to chemical agents
- European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) — how the EU regulates chemicals
- Good laboratory practice: inspection and verification of laboratory studies on all chemicals
- Good laboratory practice: tests on chemical substances
- Major accidents involving dangerous chemicals
- Managing pollution & waste
- Motor vehicles
- Civil liability insurance for motor vehicles
- Hydrogen-powered vehicles — type-approval rules
- Spray-suppression systems for motor vehicles
- Improving tyres’ fuel efficiency, braking capacity and noise levels
- Motor vehicles with trailers: permissible sound level
- Windscreen defrosting and demisting systems for motor vehicles
- Worldwide harmonised Light-duty vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) and Real Driving Emissions (RDE)
- EU approval and market surveillance measures for motor vehicles and their trailers
- Motor vehicle towing devices
- Combating cross-border vehicle crime
- Manufacturer’s statutory plate and identification number for motor vehicles
- Motor vehicles - block exemption from EU competition law
- Charging of heavy goods vehicles: Eurovignette Directive
- Safe motor vehicles and trailers
- Motor vehicle wheel guards
- Rear registration plates on motor vehicles
- Safe agricultural and forestry vehicles
- Installation of motor vehicle tyres
- Re-use, recycling and recovery of vehicle parts and materials
- Car windscreen wiper and washer systems
- Aligning technical standards — General market surveillance
- Worldwide harmonised Light-duty vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) and Real Driving Emissions (RDE)
- Curbing the sound levels of motor vehicles
- eCall in-vehicle system - type-approval
- Global technical harmonisation of vehicles
- Type-approval and market surveillance requirements for motorbikes/mopeds and quads in the EU
- Technical implications of road safety
- Protection of pedestrians and vulnerable road users
- Retrofitting of mirrors to heavy goods vehicles
- Driving time in the road transport sector
- Road haulage and passenger transport companies: operating rules
- Road safety: driving licences
- Safer cars: seat belts and child restraint systems
- Motor vehicles and trailers: vehicle registration documents
- Road safety: authorised dimensions and maximum weights for trucks, buses and coaches
- Pollution & emissions
- Emissions from heavy-duty vehicles (Euro VI): certification rules
- Monitoring and reporting the CO2 emissions of heavy-duty vehicles
- CO2 emissions and fuel consumption of heavy-duty vehicles
- Reduction in CO2 emissions of new passenger cars and of new light commercial vehicles
- Clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles
- Information on the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of new cars
- Emissions from air-conditioning systems in motor vehicles
- Reducing pollution from light motor vehicles
- Fuels — reducing sulphur content
- Quality of petrol and diesel fuels: sulphur and lead
- End-of-life vehicles
- Construction sector
- Noise emission by equipment used outdoors
- Exposure to mechanical vibration
- Exposure to asbestos: worker protection
- Fire safety in existing hotels
- Exposure to artificial optical radiation
- Construction products
- Fluorescent and high intensity discharge lamps — ecodesign requirements
- Efficient and safe hot-water boilers
- Energy performance of buildings
- Temporary and mobile work sites
- Market surveillance — ensuring product safety
- Market surveillance and compliance of products
- EU approval and market surveillance measures for motor vehicles and their trailers
- Ensuring the safety of toys in the European Union
- Machinery & related tools — safety & accuracy
- Equipment used in potentially explosive atmospheres (ATEX)
- Ensuring lift safety
- EU rules ensuring that measuring instruments are accurate
- Ensuring safe personal protective equipment for users
- EU rules ensuring that non-automatic weighing instruments are accurate
- Machinery safety
- Cableway installations for passengers
- Electrical & electronic devices
- EU rules for the taxation of energy products and electricity
- Fluorescent and high intensity discharge lamps — ecodesign requirements
- Efficient and safe hot-water boilers
- Electrical safety: low-voltage electrical equipment
- Appliances burning gaseous fuels (from 2018)
- Reducing interference between electrical and electronic devices
- Transport — aligning systems & safety
- Ensuring the compatibility of EU rail systems
- Reducing air pollution from leisure boats and personal watercraft
- Safety of pressure vessel equipment and material
- Joint rules on access to the EU road haulage market
- EU-wide rail safety
- Safety rules and standards for passenger ships
- Safer and less polluting equipment on EU ships
TAXATION
INDIRECT TAXATION
- Value-added tax (VAT)
- Refunds to non-EEC taxable persons (13th VAT Directive)
- Refund of VAT: taxable persons established in another EU country
- Exemption from customs duties and other charges: Convention on Temporary Admission
- Agreement between the EU and the Kingdom of Norway on administrative cooperation in the field of value-added tax (VAT)
- The EU’s common system of value added tax (VAT)
- Exemption from VAT: final importation of goods
- Value-added tax and excise duties — exemptions for travellers from outside the EU
- Excise duties
- Tax exemptions
AGREEMENTS WITH NON-EU COUNTRIES
- North & West Africa
- Central and Southern Africa & Indian Ocean
- Latin America & the Caribbean
- Bilateral framework agreements for cooperation with the Mercosur countries
- EEC-Andean Community Cooperation Agreement
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and Brazil
- EU-Chile Association Agreement
- EU Trade Agreement with Colombia, Peru and Ecuador
- Interregional Framework Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and Mercosur
- EU-Chile agreement on trade in organic products
- EU-Latin American and the Caribbean International Foundation
- Imposition of EU sanctions to address the situation in Venezuela
- Association Agreement between the EU and Central America
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and Argentina
- EU-Central America political dialogue and cooperation agreement
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and Chile
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and Mexico
- Political dialogue and cooperation agreement with Cuba
- EC-Mexico Global Cooperation Agreement
- Container security: EU–US agreements
- North America
- Agreements with Canada on customs matters
- Agreement with the United States on mutual legal assistance
- EU-US aviation agreements
- EU–Canada mutual recognition agreement (MRA)
- EU–United States of America mutual recognition agreement (MRA)
- Agreement between the European Union and the United States on the transfer of financial messaging data
- EU-US agreement on personal data protection
- Agreement with the United States on extradition
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and Canada
- EU-US Agreement on Insurance and Reinsurance
- EU-US agreement on airline passenger name record data
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and the United States
- Western Europe (non-EU)
- EU and Iceland: clarification of certain rules relating to trade (safeguard measures)
- Surrender procedure between EU countries and Iceland and Norway
- Agreement on the European Economic Area
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and Euratom and Norway
- EU–Switzerland mutual recognition agreement (MRA)
- Agreement between the EU and Switzerland on the greenhouse gas emissions trading system (ETS)
- Eastern Europe (non-EU)
- EU Enlargement policy 2018
- Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Kosovo
- Participation of Kosovo in EU programmes
- Association Agreement with Ukraine
- Partnership and Cooperation Agreements (PCAs): Russia, the Southern Caucasus and Central Asia
- EU–Russia partnership and cooperation agreement
- Exceptional trade measures for countries and territories involved with the EU’s stabilisation and association process
- Stabilisation and Association Agreement with North Macedonia
- Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Albania
- Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Montenegro
- Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Serbia
- Association Agreement with Moldova
- Association Agreement with Georgia
- Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Western Asia
- EU strategy for Syria
- EU customs union with Turkey
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and Egypt
- Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Yemen
- Scientific and technological cooperation with Jordan
- Cooperation Agreement between the EEC and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
- Partnership and cooperation agreement between the EU and Iraq
- EU-Israel mutual recognition agreement (MRA)
- Partnership Agreement with Armenia
- Southern Asia
- EU-India customs agreement
- Partnerships with countries in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
- Agreement with Bangladesh on partnership and development
- Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Vietnam
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and India
- EU-Afghanistan: Cooperation agreement on partnership and development
- Eastern & South-eastern Asia
- EU-Japan Strategic Partnership Agreement
- EU-Japan mutual recognition agreement (MRA)
- Partnership Agreement between the EU and the Philippines
- Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore
- Agreement with China on cooperation and mutual assistance in customs matters
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and China
- ITER: Euratom/Japan agreement on nuclear fusion
- Customs Agreement with Japan
- EU relations with China
- Investment Protection Agreement between the EU and Singapore
- Investment Protection Agreement between the EU and Vietnam
- Partnership Agreement between the EU and Mongolia
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and South Korea
- Economic partnership agreement between the EU and Japan
- EU-China agreement on civil aviation safety
- EU-Philippines Agreement on Air Services
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and Japan
- EU-Japan agreement on civil aviation safety
- Agreement with the Republic of Korea
- EU–Japan mutual legal assistance
- EU-Republic of Korea free trade agreement
- Oceania
AGREEMENTS WITH NON-EU COUNTRIES - SECTORIAL AGREEMENTS
- Agreements — Free movement of persons
- Agreements — Environment
- Barcelona Convention for the protection of the Mediterranean
- Conservation of Antarctic marine living resources
- Bern Convention
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- ITER: Euratom/Japan agreement on nuclear fusion
- International Dolphin Conservation Programme
- Geneva Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
- Helsinki Convention: preventing pollution in international watercourses and lakes
- OSPAR Convention
- The Energy Charter Treaty and Protocol
- Convention for the Conservation of Salmon in the North Atlantic Ocean
- Agreement between the EU and Switzerland on the greenhouse gas emissions trading system (ETS)
- Convention on Biological Diversity — Cartagena protocol on biosafety
- Climate change – Paris Agreement, ratified by EU
- Agreements — Trade
- Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore
- EU and Iceland: clarification of certain rules relating to trade (safeguard measures)
- Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement (TDCA) with South Africa
- Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the Southern African Development Community countries
- Association of the overseas countries and territories with the EU
- EU cooperation with the ACP countries: 11th European Development Fund
- EU Trade Agreement with Colombia, Peru and Ecuador
- Exceptional trade measures for countries and territories involved with the EU’s stabilisation and association process
- EU-Republic of Korea free trade agreement
- Agreements — Customs
- Pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin
- Agreements with Canada on customs matters
- EU-India customs agreement
- Agreement with China on cooperation and mutual assistance in customs matters
- EU customs union with Turkey
- Customs Agreement with Japan
- Agreement with the Republic of Korea
- Container security: EU–US agreements
- Agreements — Transport
- Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF)
- Montreal Convention on air carrier liability
- Interbus Agreement: the international occasional carriage of passengers by coach and bus
- EU-US aviation agreements
- Air service agreements between EU and non-EU countries
- EU–Moldova common aviation area agreement
- Euro–Mediterranean aviation agreement between the EU and Jordan
- EU–Georgia common aviation area agreement
- Euro–Mediterranean aviation agreement between the EU and Israel
- EU–Switzerland air transport agreement
- EU–Canada air transport agreement
- The Transport Community
- Euro–Mediterranean aviation agreement between the EU and Morocco
- EU-US agreement on airline passenger name record data
- Agreements — Science & technology
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and China
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and Brazil
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and South Africa
- Scientific and technological cooperation with Jordan
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and Algeria
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and Canada
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and South Korea
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and India
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and Chile
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and Japan
- Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and the United States
