Our IEU MONITORING headlines today:
SOILS
- MEPs call for EU common legal framework for the protection of soil
- Text adopted – Soil protection – P9_TA(2021)0143 – Wednesday, 28 April 2021 – Brussels
- S&Ds: If we want to protect our health and environment, the EU must ensure a common legal protection of soils
OCEANS
- Ocean conservation: EU leads the international effort to establish new Marine Protected Areas in Antarctica
SINGLE MARKET PROGRAMME
- EU enables Single Market modernisation by first-ever targeted €4.2bn programme (including food and feed issues)
- EP Text adopted – Programme for the internal market, competitiveness of enterprises, the area of plants, animals, food and feed and European statistics (Single Market Programme) 2021-2027
ECHA
- ECHA publishes Annual Report 2020
- ST 7508 2021 INIT COUNCIL DECISION appointing twelve members of the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency
THE ROTTERDAM CONVENTION
- Online regional preparations for the online segment of the 2021 COPs begin with the African and Eastern European meetings
- Outcomes of the resumed session of the Joint Bureaux meeting are now online
AIR QUALITY
- Air Convention Task Force discusses impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on air quality in the UNECE region
SPECIAL: COVID-19
- EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Liability for side effects of COVID-19 vaccine – P-001043/2021(ASW)
- EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Consequences of COVID-19 around the world – E-000600/2021(ASW)
- EP Think tank: At a Glance – The coronavirus pandemic in Latin America – 28-04-2021
- Bruegel: Vaccine diplomacy: soft power lessons from China and Russia?
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
- CM 2937 2021 INIT Ad hoc Working Party on the proposals for a Digital Green Certificate/ Mixed Committee (EU-Iceland/Liechtenstein/Norway/Switzerland)
- ST 8112 2021 ADD 1 Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the International Maritime Organization during the 103rd session of the Maritime Safety Committee and the 76th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on the adoption of amendments to the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, the International Code on the enhanced programme of inspections during surveys of Bulk carriers and Oil tankers, the International Code for Fire Safety Systems and the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships Commission statement
- ST 8176 2021 INIT COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for ametoctradin, bixafen, fenazaquin, spinetoram, tefluthrin and thiencarbazone-methyl in or on certain products
- ST 8176 2021 ADD 1 COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for ametoctradin, bixafen, fenazaquin, spinetoram, tefluthrin and thiencarbazone-methyl in or on certain products
- ST 8176 2021 ADD 2 COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for ametoctradin, bixafen, fenazaquin, spinetoram, tefluthrin and thiencarbazone-methyl in or on certain products
- ST 8180 2021 INIT – COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/…of XXX amending Annexes II, III and IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for 24-epibrassinolide, Allium cepa L. bulb extract, cyflumetofen, fludioxonil, fluroxypyr, sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate and sodium p-nitrophenolate in or on certain products
- ST 8180 2021 ADD 1 COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annexes II, III and IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for 24-epibrassinolide, Allium cepa L. bulb extract, cyflumetofen, fludioxonil, fluroxypyr, sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate and sodium p-nitrophenolate in or on certain products
- ST 8180 2021 ADD 2 COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annexes II, III and IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for 24-epibrassinolide, Allium cepa L. bulb extract, cyflumetofen, fludioxonil, fluroxypyr, sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate and sodium p-nitrophenolate in or on certain products
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