THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ROLE OF THE PROPERTY INDUSTRY 
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| PRINCIPAL AREAS OF POLICY |
An EU REIT
EU REIT Coalition: Maastricht University Report .
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BUILDING HERITAGE FUNDING
EU Funding for Building Heritage Projects .
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COMPETITION
Construction . Notaries . Lifts . Heating Pipes . Cement . Facility Management : Conphoebus (Italy) . Construction Products . Plasterboard Cartel . Reinforced Concrete Bar Cartel . Lift and Escalator Cartel . Anti-competitive practices among liberal professions servicing property owners . Architects’ Fees . Copper plumbing tubes cartel . Lift and Escalator Cartels . Bathroom Fittings Cartel .
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CONSTRUCTION
Competitiveness . Benchmarking . Tenders . IT . Construction Liability . Construction Products . Rethinking Construction -Egan Report- .
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CONSUMER PROTECTION
Unfair Contract Terms . Review of the Timeshare Directive .
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING
EU funding for cross-border training in property management .
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EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL AFFAIRS
Working Time Directive .
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ENERGY
Energy Services Directive: Council . Energy Services Directive: EPF Working Document . Energy Services Directive: Council progress report .
Energy Services Directive: Parliament: Rapporteur's Amendments . Energy Services Directive: Debate in Council . Energy Services Directive: Draft Parliament 1st Reading Amendments . Energy End-use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive - Council . Energy End-use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive: Latest Council draft . Green Paper on Energy Efficiency . Sustainable Energy Europe 2005-2008 . Energy End-use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive . Green Paper on Energy Efficiency . Parliament’s Resolution on the Energy Efficiency Green Paper . Energy End-use efficiency and Energy Services Directive . Commission Energy Efficiency Action Plan . EP Resolution on Energy Efficiency Action Plan . Recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
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ENVIRONMENT
Drinking Water . Environmental Liability . Environmental Liability and the Rights of NGOs . Cronstruction & Demolition Waste . Sixth Environment Action Programme . Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment . Groundwater Directive . Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases . Sustainable Urban Construction . Integrated Environmental Performance of Buildings: Commission standardisation mandate to CEN . Environmental Liability Directive . Flood Risk Management . Coastal Erosion . EU Emissions Trading – Extension to buildings . Flood Risk Management . Soil Protection (I) . Sonae Sierra Certified to ISO Standard 14001:2004 . Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment . Assessment and Management of Floods . Thematic Strategy and Proposal for a Directive on Waste . Property Developments in Breach of EU Environmental Law . Revision of the Drinking Water Directive . Floods Directive-EP 1st Reading . Soil Protection Directive (II) . Urban Environment – Parliament Resolution . EU Funding for Housing and the Urban Environment . EU Initiative on Business and Biodiversity . EU Green Tax . Climate Change Green Paper . Soil Protection Directive (III) . Water Performance of Buildings Directive . Water Performance of Buildings Directive (NEW) .
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EU INTERNAL MARKET FOR PROPERTY
Portugal’s discriminatory rules on tax relief for capital gains from home sales . Germany’s discriminatory rules on housing grants . Taxation of housing-related capital gains . Rental of Properties in the Canary Islands . Services Directive (I) . Italian Minimum Fees for Architects and Engineers . Services Directive (II) . Commission Communication on Social Services of General Interest . Freedom to Invest in Property in Croatia . Flemish Stamp Duty Discrimination . Services Directive(III): Council’s Common Position . Services Directive (IV) . Conveyancing Services (NEW) .
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EU PASSPORT FOR OPEN ENDED REAL ESTATE FUNDS
Joint ELO, EPF, RICS & TEGoVA recommendations on an EU passport for open ended real estate funds (NEW) .
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EU Treaties
Consolidated Treaties . Treaty of Nice: Significance for Property .
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EULIS
European Land Information Service .
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EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION
EPF Guide to the Constitution . Aspects affecting EPF .
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EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE
1) Cleaning & Sanitation (Italy) . 2) Property Tax Discrimination (Greece) . 3) Purchase of Immovable Property – discrimination on grounds of nationality – (Italy - Alfredo Albore) .
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FINANCIAL SERVICES
Changes to Capital Adequacy Rules for Credit Institutions: Impact on the Financing of Commercial Property . Pension Fund Directive . Tax-transparent Property Investment Vehicle . UCITS Directive Review . Green Paper on Mortgage Credit in the EU (I) . Investment by UCITS into Closed End Real Estate Funds . Green Paper on Mortgage Credit (EPF response to the Commission) (II) . Mortgage Credit: Final report of the Mortgage Funding Expert Group (III) . White Paper on the Integration of EU Mortgage Credit Markets (IV) (NEW) .
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
China curbs foreign property investment .
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HEALTH AND SAFETY
Healthy Buildings . Existing Lifts . New Lifts . Asbestos . Safety & Health at Temporary or Mobile Construction Sites .
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HOUSING
Statistics on Housing Tenure Status . Housing Statistics in the EU 2002 . Housing Statistics in the EU 2003 . Housing Developments in European Countries . Housing Statistics in the European Union 2004 . Population and housing censuses .
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JUSTICE & HOME AFFAIRS
Insolvency Proceedings: Council Regulation 1346/2000 .
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MERGER CONTROL
Secretariat Report . Atis Real International-BNP Parisbas Immobilier . Commission clears acquisition of Viterra by DAIG .
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STATE AID
Sale of Land . Building Renovation for Indoor Air Quality . UK Partnership Support for Regeneration . UK “Stamp Duty Exemption” and UK “Support for Land Remediation” . Swedish Municipal Housing Companies (A) . White Paper on Services of General Interest . UK property tax on telecoms . State Aid to Swedish Municipal Housing Companies (B) . State Aid Action Plan . New Rules on State Funding for Social Housing . Berlin Transfer Tax Exemption for Housing Companies . Swedish Municipal Housing Companies – Swedish government response to EPF’s 2nd complaint and EPF rebuttal (C) . Dutch Social Housing . State Aid to Swedish Municipal Housing Companies -Standards & Poor's analyses impact of EPF complaint- . EU Guidelines on State Aid for Environmental Protection (NEW) .
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TAXATION
Arthur Andersen Netherlands Study . VAT on Labour-Intensive Services . Reduced VAT Rates for Renovation and Repair of Housing . 6th VAT Directive . Comparative Tables of Member State VAT Rates . Proposal for a Directive amending the 6th VAT Directive (I) . European Parliament: Draft opinion of Rapporteur Christa Randzio-Plath on proposal for a Directive amending the 6th VAT Directive (II) . European Parliament: Legislative resolution on proposal for a Directive amending the 6th VAT Directive (III) . Reduced Rates of VAT on Housing (A) . VAT on Housing Services and on Rent (B) . Tax Depreciation of Immovable Assets . Reduced Rates of VAT on Housing (C) . Reduced Rates of VAT on Renovation and Repair of Housing (D) . VAT on Renovation and Repair of Private Dwellings (E) -Final List of Member States Allowed to Apply a Reduced Rate- . Reduced Rates of VAT on Housing .
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TRANSPORT
Mid-term Review of the White Paper on European Transport Policy .
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