Our IEU Environment Monitoring headlines today:
FOOD
- EU Commission Q&A on actions boosting organic production
- Reinforcing trust in scientific studies on food products: new rules for more transparency and independence
- EFSA: Transparency in risk assessment: a new era begins
- Eurocommerce: Consumers want more organic food, retail and wholesale want to provide it
ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY
- Environmental Liability: EU Commission announces guidelines to identify when environmental damage needs to be prevented and remediated
AIR POLLUTION
- Air quality standards needed for all air pollutants that affect health, say MEPs
- S&Ds: Air pollution causes over 400 thousand deaths per year – we need new EU standards and legislation to stop this
AQUACULTURE
- EU Parliament urges EU to take drastic action to reduce marine litter
DUAL-USE GOODS
- EU Parliament agrees to new EU export rules on dual-use items
SPECIAL: COVID-19
- EU Commission President von der Leyen: “Europe has chosen to build a global health alliance”
- Coronavirus vaccine disinformation: new reports from online platforms to inform Code of Practice revamp
- EU Parliament fast-tracks procedure to adopt Digital Green Certificate by June
PLASTICS
- WWF Statement on Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act
EFSA BRIEFS
- Administrative guidance for the preparation of renewal applications on genetically modified food and feed
- Administrative guidance for the preparation of applications on genetically modified plants
- Open call for food additive occurrence data in food and beverages intended for human consumption
- Review of the existing maximum residue levels for pinoxaden according to Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005
- Transparency in risk assessment: a new era begins
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