Our IEU MONITORING headlines today:
COVID-19
- EU Digital COVID Certificate: European Parliament and Council reach agreement on Commission proposal
- S&D Group: EU agreement on Digital EU Covid Certificates to ease travel ahead of summer
- The EU Digital Covid Certificate is a crucial step towards saving the tourist season – ECR Group
- Coronavirus: EU Commission signs a third contract with BioNTech-Pfizer for an additional 1.8 billion doses
- Getting a vaccine patent waiver is not enough, says WTO chief to EP Trade Committee
- COVID-19: EU Council updates recommendation on restrictions to travel from third countries
- COVID-19 and EU values: EP working group to assess the impact of the pandemic
ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY
- MEPs: Environmental liability rules need revamping
- Text adopted – Liability of companies for environmental damage – P9_TA(2021)0259 – Thursday, 20 May 2021 – Brussels
THE AARHUS CONVENTION
- Aarhus Convention: EU Parliament supports the EU’s full compliance
- EP Text adopted – Environment: The Aarhus Regulation ***I – P9_TA(2021)0254 – Thursday, 20 May 2021 – Brussels
- EU-Abgeordneter Christian Doleschal (EVP/CSU) zur Aarhus-Verordnung
- CAN Europe: MEPs voted in favor of amending the Aarhus Regulation to provide access to justice for NGOs and citizens
BLUE ECONOMY
- 2021 EU Blue Economy report: Emerging sectors prepare the blue economy for leading part in EU green transition
THE ROTTERDAM CONVENTION
- The UN International Day of Biodiversity marked as BRS participates in the second Global Biodiversity Festival
BIODIVERSITY
- EFSA: Protecting bees: a new way forward for risk assessment
- World Bee Day: New handbook to help develop European nature restoration targets
RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
- ECA: EU actions and existing challenges on electronic waste
BIOCIDES
- Biocide release from antifouling paints may be higher than reported, finds Swedish study
UNEP
- Report reveals progress on environmentally protected areas, but quality must improve
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
- CM 3251 2021 INIT Informal videoconference of the members of the Working Party on the Environment
- CM 3266 2021 INIT Informal videoconference of the members of the Working Party on International Environment Issues (Global) (morning only)
- ST 8949 2021 INITDraft Council Conclusions on the EU’s priorities for the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit – approval
EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER
- COMMISSION DECISION on the appointment of Commission representatives to the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency
- COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/… concerning the non-approval of fermented extract from leaves of Symphytum officinale L. (comfrey) as a basic substance in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market
ECHA BRIEFS
- Public Consultations-Condensation products of phenol and salicylaldehyde
- Public Consultations-Potassium hexadecyl hydrogen phosphate
- Public Consultations-Iron, complexes with diazotized 5-amino-2-(phenylamino)benzenesulfonic acid monosodium salt coupled with 4-[(2-hydroxy-3,5-dinitrophenyl)azo]-1,3-benzenediol, diazotized 4-nitrobenzenamine and diazotized 3-aminobenzenesulfonic acid monosodium salt
- Public Consultations-undec-10-enoic acid
- Public Consultations-N-(4-amino-9,10-dihydro-3-methoxy-9,10-dioxo-1-anthryl)-4-methylbenzenesulphonamide
- Public Consultations-N-pentan-2-ylidenehydroxylamine
- Public Consultations-Vinylene carbonate
EFSA BRIEFS
- Regulated products: webinar series to support applicants
- Outcome of the public consultation on the draft EFSA Scientific Committee Opinion on a systems-based approach to the environmental risk assessment of multiple stressors in honey bees
- A systems-based approach to the environmental risk assessment of multiple stressors in honey bees
- Protecting bees: a new way forward for risk assessment
- Webinar: Application procedure for food enzymes, food flavourings and food additives
- Incidence and epidemiological characteristics of ciguatera cases in Europe
- Evaluation of ciguatoxins in seafood and the environment in EuropeRisk characterisation of ciguatera poisoning in Europe
- Characterisation of ciguatoxins
- Antimicrobial resistance guidance for 2021 data reporting
- Manual for reporting 2021 antimicrobial resistance data within the framework of Directive 2003/99/EC and Decision 2020/1729/EU
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