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Insight EU Environment Monitoring 22 March 2023

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Petrochemical flow-chart. Source: Petrochemicals Europe
PFAS
  • ECHA seeks input on proposed PFAS restrictions
  • Latest ECHA Weekly published
  • ECHA/EUON: Latest nano-headlines on the web
UN WATER CONFERENCE
  • UN Conference seeks solutions to global water crisis
  • Guterres warns of ‘catastrophic’ consequences of a world without glaciers
  • IAEA: Groundwater: How Scientists Study its Pollution and Sustainability?
  • Video statement by EU Commission President von der Leyen at the UN Water Conference
  • World Water Day: Joint Statement by the High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell and Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  • Weltwassertag 2023: Gemeinsam für eine Trendwende in der globalen Wasserpolitik
  • Bundestag: Bundesregierung legt Nationale Wasserstrategie vor
  • Water has to become a common good – two new reports show – The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  • Weltwassertag: Mit seiner Wasserstrategie muss Deutschland seine Verantwortung beim Gewässerschutz national und global wahrnehmen – BUND
  • U.S. White House: Statement by NSC Spokesperson Adrienne Watson on the Administration’s Actions to Invest in Water Security
GREEN CLAIMS
  • Consumer protection: enabling sustainable choices and ending greenwashing
  • EU commission Questions and Answers on European Green Claims
  • Remarks by EU Commissioners Reynders and Sinkevičius on measures against misleading environmental claims and on the right to repair
  • S&Ds welcome EU Commission’s ‘right to repair’ proposal to protect environment and citizens’ money
  •  Retailers and wholesalers support clear rules on green claims
  • EEB: Protecting consumers: new EU laws set to curtail greenwashing and boost repair
RIGHT TO REPAIR
  • EU Commission introduces new consumer rights for easy and attractive repairs
  • ‘Right to repair’: EU Commission Questions & Answers
CLP
  • Cefic outlines four actions for effective revision of the EU Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
  • Cefic: A circular economy opens up opportunities for the chemicals sector
PETROCHEMICALS
  • The Journey Of Petrochemicals Explained: From Raw Materials To 95% Of All Manufactured Goods
GERMANY
  • Bundestag: Anhörung zum Thema Kreislaufwirtschaft
EFSA BRIEFS
  • 136th Plenary meeting of the CONTAM Panel – Open for observers
  • 9th meeting of the FCM Network
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
  • CM 2026 2023 INIT Informal videoconference of the members of the Working Party on International Environment Issues (UNECE CLRTAP)
  • CM 2193 2023 INIT Working Party Meeting on Technical Harmonisation (Dangerous Substances – Chemicals)
  • CM 2217 2023 INIT Working Party on International Environment Issues (Int. Chemicals/Synergies)
  • CM 2209 2023 INIT Working Party on Forestry
  • ST 7605 2023 INIT COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Guidelines on Biodiversity-Friendly Afforestation, Reforestation and Tree Planting
  • ST 7729 2023 INIT Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Co-operative Republic of Guyana on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products to the European Union, signed in Montreal on 15 December 2022
  • ST 7736 2023 INIT COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Commission Guidelines for Defining, Mapping, Monitoring and Strictly Protecting EU Primary and Old-Growth Forests
  • ST 7629 2023 INIT COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX correcting certain language versions of Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the voluntary participation by organisations in a Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS) = Decision not to oppose adoption
  • ST 7586 2023 ADD 2 ANNEX to the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for cyantraniliprole in or on certain products
  • ST 7608 2023 INIT REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT on the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 on shipments of waste Generation, treatment and transboundary shipment of hazardous waste and other waste in the Member States of the European Union and the United Kingdom 2016-2019
  • ST 7608 2023 ADD 1 COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Accompanying the document REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 on shipments of waste Generation, treatment and transboundary shipment of hazardous waste and other waste in the Member States of the European Union and the United Kingdom 2016-2019
  • ST 7652 2023 INIT Conclusions on the EU’s priorities for an effective Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to ensure a sustainable future and food security for all
EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER
  • AMENDMENTS 49 – 343 – Draft opinion European Health Data Space – PE745.175v02-00
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
  • Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)
  • Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on common rules promoting the repair of goods and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2394, Directives (EU) 2019/771 and (EU) 2020/1828
  • COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT Accompanying the document Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules promoting the repair of goods and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2394, Directives (EU) 2019/771 and (EU) 2020/1828
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) /… concerning the authorisation of a preparation of endo-1,4-beta-xylanase produced by Komagataella phaffii ATCC PTA-127053 as a feed additive for all laying poultry (holder of authorisation: Kemin Europa N.V.)

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