Greece is holding from the 1st of January until the 30th of June 2014 the Presidency of the Council of the EU.
 
It takes over the Presidency from Lithuania, which lists its achievements here: http://www.eu2013.lt/en/news/pressreleases/achievements-of-the-lithuanian-presidency-more-credible-growing-and-open-europe

GCO will be participating once again at the annual International Compliance Professionals (ICPA) EU conference which this year is in Dublin (June 23-25).

The EU has adopted measures to implement UNSCR 1970(2011).

This is done through Decision 2011/137/CFSP and Council Regulation 204/2011.

The UK National competition authority - The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) - has published on its website (here) a number of new competition guidance notices for companies doing business in the UK. Although these are geared specifically to the UK market, they concern matters of general application across the EU and can therefore be a valuable resource for all EU compliance programmes.