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Insight EU Environment Monitoring 12 May 2023

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ZERO-POLLUTION
  • Umweltverschmutzung: Kommission holt Meinungen zum Verursacherprinzip ein
PESTICIDES
  • Kaboom! Blast-off for EFSA plants comic
GREENWASHING
  • EU-Abgeordneter Schwab (CDU) zum Nachhaltigkeitslabel und dem Verbot von Greenwashing
  • EEB: Red card to greenwashing and early obsolescence: EU Parliament votes to strengthen consumer protection
GREEN CHEMISTRY
  • Green Chemistry Bootcamp: Developing Skills to Create a Sustainable Future
ANTIBIOTICS
  • EMA: Fluoroquinolone antibiotics: reminder of measures to reduce the risk of long-lasting, disabling and potentially irreversible side effects
GERMANY
  • Treffen der deutschsprachigen UmweltministerInnen:  Biodiversitätskrise, Klimaschutz und das gemeinsame Vorgehen gegen die globale Verschmutzung im Fokus des diesjährigen 5er-Treffens
NOVEL TOBACCO PRODUCTS
  • Workshops – Novel Tobacco Products and their effects on health – 30-11-2022 – Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
ACCESS TO DRUGS
  • Lieferengpässe bei Arzneimitteln – Bundesrat fordert langfristige Strategie
EFSA BRIEFS
  • Pest categorisation of Nilaparvata lugens
  • Avian influenza decreases in poultry in Europe, seagulls heavily affected
  • Avian influenza overview March – April 2023
  • Online info session on bee guidance document – registration open!
SCHEER & SCCS BRIEFS
  • SCHEER: Commission launches public consultation on the Preliminary Opinion on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes
  • SCCS – Minutes of the Working Group meeting on Nanomaterials in Cosmetic Products of 24 April 2023
  • SCCS – Minutes of the Working Group meeting on Cosmetic Ingredients of 17-18 April 2023
  • Commission launches a call for information to update the 2019 SCHEER Guidelines on the benefit-risk assessment of the presence of phthalates in certain medical devices
ECHA-EUON BRIEFS
  • Intelligent membranes with memories make smart filters
  • Stab-resistant fabric gains strength from carbon nanotubes, polyacrylate
  • Novel nanocages for delivery of small interfering RNAs
  • Molding of nanowires spurs unanticipated phases
  • Nanotubes as optical stopwatch for the detection of neurotransmitters
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
  • ST 8439 2023 INIT Commission’s intention to join, on behalf of the EU, the Ministerial Statement of the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution
  • ST 7906 2023 REV 3 Draft submission by Member States and the Commission to the 80th session of the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee proposing a regulation/scope of work for the evaluation and harmonisation of rules and guidance on the discharges and residues from Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems into the aquatic environment, including conditions and areas
  • ST 7906 2023 REV 2 Draft submission by Member States and the Commission to the 80th session of the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee proposing a regulation/scope of work for the evaluation and harmonisation of rules and guidance on the discharges and residues from Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems into the aquatic environment, including conditions and areas
  • ST 8955 2023 ADD 1 REV 2 Draft REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the making available on the Union market and the export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation and repealing Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 (first reading) – Adoption of the legislative act = Statements
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/… amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1321/2013 as regards the name of the holder of the authorisation for the smoke flavouring primary product ‘TradismokeTM A MAX’ (unique code SF-007)
  • COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION on the methodology for the monitoring of food additive and food flavouring intake.
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) /… amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 as regards the conditions of use of the novel food Lacto-N-neotetraose
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) /… amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 as regards the conditions of use of the novel food 2´-Fucosyllactose
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) /… amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 as regards the specifications of the novel food protein extract from pig kidneys
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) /… authorising the placing on the market of 6′-Sialyllactose sodium salt produced by derivative strains of Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) as a novel food and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470

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