PLASTICS
- EU Commission launches public consultation on biobased, biodegradable, and compostable plastics
INFORMAL ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL
- Informal Meetings of Environment and Energy Ministers, Amiens, 20–22 January
TOXICITY
- New advice for determining dose levels in toxicity testing
AIR POLLUTION
- Toxic chemical pollutants long-range air transport to remote European mountain ranges
WATER POLLUTION
- Novel nitrogen hazard tool better identifies agricultural groundwater pollution potential
BIODIVERSITY
- Global biodiversity indices used to inform policy decisions – but are they robust and accurate?
- Researchers call for inclusion of genetic diversity monitoring and conservation in global commitments
FARM TO FORK
- Impact of Farm to Fork Strategy on agriculture and food systems (25 Jan) – Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
COVID-19
- Speech by EU Commissioner Kyriakides at the High-Level Conference of the French Presidency
- COVID-19: WHO expresses hope worst of Omicron wave is over
- Bruegel: The effect of COVID certificates on vaccine uptake, public health, and the economy
- Dievini and The Federal Republic of Germany amend shareholders’ agreement regarding investments in Curevac N.V.
GERMANY
- Gemeinsam für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Klima – Bndesumweltministerin Lemke eröffnet gemeinsam mit Bundeslandwirtschaftsminister Özdemir und EU-Umweltkommissar Sinkevičius den sechsten BMUV-Agrarkongress
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
- ST 5446 2022 INIT 8th Round of Mutual Evaluations – ‘The practical implementation and operation of European policies on preventing and combating Environmental Crime’ Follow-up to the Report on Croatia
- ST 5365 2022 INIT 2022 European Semester: The Annual Sustainable Growth Survey 2022 – ECOFIN Council Conclusions on 18 January 2022
- ST 5170 2022 INIT Council conclusions on ECA’s Special Report 22/2021 “Sustainable finance: More consistent EU action needed to redirect finance towards sustainable investment” – Approval
- ST 5171 2022 REV 1 Council conclusions on ECA’s Special Report 22/2021 “Sustainable finance: More consistent EU action needed to redirect finance towards sustainable investment”
EFSA BRIEFS
- 27th plenary meeting of the FAF Panel
- Extensive literature searches on bromine and ochratoxin A in feed
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