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Insight EU Environment Monitoring 15 February 2023

Feb 17, 2023
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INFRINGEMENTS: ENVIRONMENT
  • The EU Commission decides to refer SLOVENIA back to the Court of Justice of the European Union for continued pollution problems caused by an illegal landfill
  • Environmental liability: Commission calls on DENMARK to fully transpose the Environmental Liability Directive into national legislation
  • Major accidents involving dangerous substances: EU Commission calls on AUSTRIA to improve prevention rules
  • Water management: EU Commission calls on 16 Member States to finalise review of their water plans
  • Marine environment: EU Commission calls on BULGARIA, DENMARK, ESTONIA, GREECE, CROATIA, CYPRUS, LATVIA, LITHUANIA and MALTA to protect their marine waters
  • EU Commission calls on FRANCE to guarantee clean drinking water
  • Water pollution: EU Commission decides to refer BELGIUM to the Court over nitrates in Wallonia and calls on the country to protect its waters from nitrate pollution in Flanders
  • Water: Commission calls on ITALY to better protect its population and ecosystems from nitrates pollution from agriculture
  • Fertilisers: Commission calls on BULGARIA, CROATIA and SLOVENIA to adopt procedures for the notification of conformity assessment bodies in the sector
  • Commission calls on FRANCE to ensure that its labelling requirements concerning waste sorting instructions comply with the principle of free movement of goods
  • Waste pollution: the Commission decides to refer CROATIA back to the Court of Justice of the European Union for continued pollution problems caused by an illegal landfill
  • Nature: EU Commission calls on MALTA to cease spring hunting of turtle dove
WHISTLEBLOWERS
  • The European Commission decides to refer 8 Member States to the Court of Justice of the European Union over the protection of whistleblowers
RADIATION
  • Radiation protection: Commission urges PORTUGAL to correctly transpose the Euratom Drinking Water Directive
REACH
  • BfR: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs): Proposal for restriction under the REACH Regulation submitted to the European Chemicals Agency
GERMANY
  • „Resilienz und Nachhaltigkeit gehen Hand in Hand“ – OECD-Ministertreffen zu verantwortungsvollem unternehmerischem Handeln
  • Bundestag: 20/5646: Bericht Technikfolgenabschätzung (TA) Mögliche gesundheitliche Auswirkungen verschiedener Frequenzbereiche elektromagnetischer Felder (HF-EMF) (PDF)
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
  • ST 6474 2023 INIT REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION on the experience of Member States with Directive 2009/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on the contained use of genetically modified micro-organisms for the period 2019 – 2021
  • CM 1687 2023 INIT Informal videoconference of the members of the Working Party on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
  • ST 6181 2023 ADD 1 Commission Regulation (EU) No …/.. of XXX amending Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards lead and its compounds in PVC – Decision not to oppose adoption – Statement by Denmark
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
  • COMMISSION DECISION appointing the members and the observers of the Steering Committee of the European Health and Digital Executive Agency
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION amending Implementing Decision C(2021) 4997 on the financing of the LIFE programme and the adoption of the work programme for the years 2021 to 2024
  • REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION on the experience of Member States with Directive 2009/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on the contained use of genetically modified micro-organisms for the period 2019 – 2021
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) /… concerning the renewal of the authorisation of vitamin E as a feed additive for all animal species and repealing Regulation (EU) No 26/2011
  • DÉCISION D’EXÉCUTION DE LA COMMISSION relative à la désignation du médicament “H-L-tryphophanyl-L-séryl-glycyl-L-tryptophanyl-L-séryl-L-séryl-L-cystéinyl-L-séryl-L-arginyl-L-séryl-L-cystéinyl-glycyl-OH (liaison disulfure), sel d’acétate” comme médicament orphelin au titre du règlement (CE) n° 141/2000 du Parlement européen et du Conseil

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