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Insight EU Environment Monitoring 12 December 2022

Dec 14, 2022 ,
Nanomaterial's scheme. Source: EU Commission
NANOMATERIALS
  • Nanomaterials’ (bio)degradation, persistence, and safe by design (SbD) examined in a recent study – EUON / ECHA
PESTICIDES
  • Opening Remarks by EU Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the AGRIFISH Council – Sustainable Use of Pesticides
PLASTICS
  • Most plastic consumption in Europe lacks direct policy targets and data
THE ROTTERDAM CONVENTION
  • 56th edition of the Rotterdam Convention PIC Circular now online
FOOD LABELLING
  • Opening Remarks by EU Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the AGRIFISH Council – Food Labelling
ANIMAL WELFARE
  • Opening Remarks by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the AGRIFISH Council – Fitness Check on EU Animal Welfare Legislation
GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
  • InvestEU: EU Commission signs agreement with Nordic Investment Bank to unlock €480 million in green investments
EEA BRIEFS
  • Numbers of Member States that met their national emissions reduction commitments for the five key pollutants in 2020 (top) and had already met their 2030 objectives in 2020 (bottom).
  • Spatial variation in N surplus (left) and P surplus (right) for the year 2010 in the EU-27
  • Estimated potential volume and value of industrial symbiosis activities by industry
  • Comparison of 16 climate and environmental impacts of EU consumption with the Earth’s carrying capacity
  • Incineration plants (non-hazardous waste incineration) — air emissions of selected pollutants, from 2010-2020, indexed to 2010
  • Landfill — air emissions of selected pollutants from 2010-2020, indexed to 2010
  • Amount of total waste (excluding major mineral waste) sent to landfill in the EU, 2010-2018
  • Past trends in and distance to target for residual municipal waste
  • Estimated mineral fertiliser consumption by agriculture in the EU-27, 2008-2018
  • Consumption of chemical groups in the EU, 2004-2020, indexed to 2004
  • The EU’s consumption footprint (expressed in aggregated millions of points), reflecting the total environmental and climate impacts of consumption, 2010-2020
  • Trends in the risk and use of chemical pesticides in the EU-27, 2011-2020
  • Industrial releases of pollutants to water and economic activity in the EU-27, 2010-2020
  • Industrial releases of pollutants to air and economic activity in the EU-27, 2010-2020
  • Percentage of contaminated sites by polluting activity related to the extractive sector
  • EU methane emissions (Mt) based on various IPCC global warming potentials, 2020
EFSA BRIEFS
  • Opinion on the re‐evaluation of sodium carboxy methyl cellulose (E 466) as a food additive in foods for infants below 16 weeks of age and follow‐up of its re‐evaluation as food additive for uses in foods for all population groups
  • Safety evaluation of the food enzyme containing cellulase, endo‐1,3(4)‐β‐glucanase and endo‐1,4‐β‐xylanase activities from the non‐genetically modified Trichoderma reesei strain AR‐256
  • Maintenance, update and further development of EFSA’s Chemical Hazards: OpenFoodTox 2.0
  • Safety assessment of the process Duy Tan Plastic Recycling, based on the Starlinger iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety assessment of the process Ester Industries, based on the recoSTAR PET FG technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety assessment of the process Alef Recycling, based on the Starlinger iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety assessment of the process EcoBlue, based on PET direct iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety assessment of the process rPET Aviv Shalam, based on the Starlinger iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety assessment of the process Poly Recycling, based on the VACUNITE (EREMA basic and Polymetrix SSP V‐leaN) technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety evaluation of the food enzyme pectin lyase from the genetically modified Trichoderma reesei strain RF6199

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