Our IEU MONITORING headlines today:
BIODIVERSITY
- MEPs approve deal to invest €5.4 billion in climate and environmental projects
BIOTECH
- Biotechnologies: EU Commission seeks open debate on New Genomic Techniques as study shows potential for sustainable agriculture and need for a new policy
- EU JRC: New genomic techniques: where do we stand?
- EU-Abgeordneter Martin Häusling (Grüne/EFA) zur Kommissionsstudie “Neue Gentechnik”: Vorsorgeprinzip ist Nebensache?
- Bundesumweltministerin Schulze zur Studie der EU-Kommission: Vorsorgeprinzip und Wahlfreiheit müssen oberste Leitlinie für Gentechnik-Zulassung bleiben
ROHS DIRECTIVE
- EU Commission: Answer to a written question – RoHS Directive and banning the use of mercury – P-001340/2021(ASW)
BETTER REGULATION
- EU Commission on Better Regulation: Joining forces to make better EU laws and to prepare for the future
- EU Commission publishes analysis to highlight the quality of public administration as a key success factor towards COVID-19 recovery and the green and digital transitions
- New EC communication on Better regulation: CoR welcomes the Commission’s willingness to cooperate more closely with local and regional authorities
- BDI zur Mitteilung „Bessere Rechtsetzung“ der Europäischen Kommission: „Längst überfällige Strategie mit Nachdruck in die Tat umsetzen”
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
- Intellectual Property Action Plan: Commission seeks public opinion on protection of Industrial Designs and EU-wide Geographical indications for products
MARINE POLLUTION
- Europol & Frontex: 1 600 offences detected in a global operation against marine pollution
GREEN RECOVERY
- Greens/EFA: Why we need a Green Recovery
SPECIAL: COVID-19
- EU Parliament: EU COVID-19 certificate must facilitate free movement without discrimination
- EP Text adopted – Digital Green Certificate – Union citizens – P9_TA(2021)0145 – Thursday, 29 April 2021 – Brussels
- EP Text adopted – Digital Green Certificate – third-country nationals – P9_TA(2021)0146 – Thursday, 29 April 2021 – Brussels
- Coronavirus vaccine disinformation: new reports from online platforms to inform Code of Practice revamp
- From science to action: finding a common European approach for tracking SARS-CoV-2 and its variants in wastewater
- SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern pose a higher risk for hospitalisation and intensive care admission
- ECDC and the European Commission further strengthen genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 with support of Eurofins Genomics
- EMA and ECDC join forces for enhanced post-marketing monitoring of COVID-19 vaccines in Europe
EFSA BRIEFS
- Safety evaluation of the food enzyme triacylglycerol lipase from the genetically modified Aspergillus luchuensis strain FL100SC
- Assessment of a feed additive consisting of all‐rac‐alpha tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E) for all animal species for the renewal of its authorisation (BASF SE)
- Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of a dried extract from the roots of Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer (P. ginseng dry extract) for use in cats and dogs (C.I.A.M.)
- GP/EFSA/ALPHA/2021/01 Entrusting support tasks in the area of Plant health – Data management for spatially explicit environmental data and climate suitability analysis of plant pests and diseases
- Technical assistance in the field of risk communication
- Catalogue of Communication Tools and Dissemination Guidelines: benchmarking current practice in EU and Member State bodies
- EFSA reports set to inspire future risk communications in Europe
- Mapping the coordination and cooperation mechanisms of risk communication on feed/food safety in the EU
- Proposal: Multi‐annual (2021‐2024) training package to address EFSA’s crisis preparedness needs
- Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of copper chelate of ethylenediamine for all animal species (Zinpro Animal Nutrition (Europe), Inc.)
- Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of iron chelate of ethylenediamine for all animal species (Zinpro Animal Nutrition (Europe), Inc.)
- Safety and efficacy of the feed additives concentrated liquid l‐lysine (base) and l‐lysine monohydrochloride produced by Corynebacterium glutamicum KCCM 80183 for all animal species (CJ Europe GmbH)
- Assessment of a feed additive consisting of all‐rac‐alpha tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E) for all animal species for the renewal of its authorisation (EUROPE‐ASIA Import Export GmbH)
- Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of chromium propionate (KemTRACE™ Chromium) for all growing poultry species (Kemin Europa NV)
- Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of endo‐1,4‐β‐xylanase (ECONASE XT) produced by Trichoderma reesei CBS 140027 as a feed additive for piglets (weaned), pigs for fattening, chickens for fattening, chickens reared for laying, laying hens,…
- Overview of sixteen scientific opinions on genetically modified plants obtained by new genomic techniques
- Overview of EFSA and European national authorities’ scientific opinions on the risk assessment of plants developed through New Genomic Techniques
- Physicochemical characterization of nanoparticles in food additives in the context of risk identification
- Feasibility study Open MCRA
- Modeling human variability in toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic processes using Bayesian meta‐analysis, physiologically‐based modeling and in vitro systems
- The potential impact of prioritisation methods on the outcome of cumulative exposure assessments of pesticides
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