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Insight EU Environment Monitoring 21 March 2023

Mar 23, 2023
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UN WATER CONFERENCE
  • Flagship UN report extolls win-win water partnerships to avert global crisis
  • UN Water Conference: EU joins efforts to address the global water crisis and ensure water security for all by 2050
  • Water as a vital investment in our future: the EIB at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference
  • Bundestag: 20/6110: Unterrichtung Nationale Wasserstrategie (PDF)
  • Weltwassertag: Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe nimmt an UN-Konferenz in New York teil
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
  • EPP Group: Punish environmental crime with 10 percent of global turnover
  • S&D Group: Serial polluters must start paying heavily for their crimes
  • Renew Europe: New legislation is necessary to ensure a more effective fight against environmental crimes
FOREST MANAGEMENT
  • EU forests: Commission adopts new guidelines to support tree planting actions and to protect old-growth forests
  • Guidelines for Defining, Mapping, Monitoring and Strictly Protecting EU Primary and Old-Growth Forests
  • Guidelines on Biodiversity-Friendly Afforestation, Reforestation and Tree Planting
SUSTAINABILITY
  • Keynote of EVP Vestager for the First Annual RRP Event – A Green and Digital Recovery for Denmark
  • Greens/EFA position paper: A transition that works for all the people
EU HEALTH UNION
  • Opening Remarks by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at European Parliament Event; “A Comprehensive Approach to Mental Health in Europe”
  • Workshops – Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP) – 22-03-2023 – Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
ECHA
  • ECHA: Member States plan to evaluate 24 substances in 2023-2025
EFSA BRIEFS
  • Plant Health Newsletter on Horizon Scanning February 2023
  • 13th meeting of the Network on Echinococcus multilocularis infection in animals
  • Review of the existing maximum residue levels for cypermethrins according to Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005
  • 87th Advisory Forum Meeting
  • Modification of the existing maximum residue levels for pendimethalin in peas (with pods), beans (with pods) and leeks
  • Statement on the short‐term (acute) dietary risk assessment and evaluation of confirmatory data for certain maximum residue levels (MRLs) for thiacloprid
  • EFSA info‐session on Avian Influenza surveillance data in the context of the SIGMA Project
  • Mineral oil hydrocarbons in food – have your say on the draft
  • FoodEx2 maintenance 2022
  • Pest survey card on Anisogramma anomala
  • Episode 5 – Avian influenza: a bird’s-eye view
  • Evaluation of confirmatory data following the Article 12 MRL review and modification of the existing maximum residue levels for penconazole in various crops
  • Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus CNCM I‐3698 and Companilactobacillus sp. CNCM I‐3699 for all animal species (STI Biotechnologie)
  • Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus CNCM I‐3698 and Companilactobacillus sp. CNCM I‐3699 for chickens for fattening (STI Biotechnologie)
  • EFSA, ECDC, EURL: ongoing avian influenza outbreaks in birds, low risk to the public
  • Avian influenza overview December 2022 – March 2023
  • Statement on the revised targeted risk assessment for certain maximum residue levels for nicotine
  • Testing the JRC TIM Tools to identify emerging chemical risks
  • Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of an essential oil from the leaves of Laurus nobilis L. (laurel leaf oil) for all animal species (FEFANA asbl)
  • Assessment of the feed additive consisting of robenidine hydrochloride (Cycostat® 66G) for rabbits for breeding and rabbits for fattening for the renewal of its authorisation (Zoetis)
  • Pest survey card on Diabrotica barberi and Diabrotica virgifera zeae
  • Safety evaluation of the food enzyme endo‐polygalacturonase from the genetically modified Aspergillus niger strain EPG
  • Coordinated surveillance system under the One Health approach for cross‐border pathogens that threaten the Union – options for sustainable surveillance strategies for priority pathogens
  • Safety assessment of the process Plastipak Iberia, based on the VACUNITE (EREMA basic and Polymetrix SSP V‐leaN) technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety assessment of the process Steinbeis PolyVert, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety and efficacy of the feed additives 2‐acetylfuran [13.054] and 2‐pentylfuran [13.059] belonging to chemical group 14 for animal species (FEFANA asbl)
  • Safety assessment of the process Zhenjiang Ceville, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance sulfur
CELEX
  • CELEX:52023PC0161: Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on establishing a framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act)
  • CELEX:52023PC0143: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union with regard to submitting a proposal for amendment of Appendix I to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) with a view to the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties
  • CELEX:52023PC0160: Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials and amending Regulations (EU) 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, 2018/1724 and (EU) 2019/1020
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
  • ST 6921 2023 REV 1 Preparation for the Council (Environment) on 16 March 2023 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control) and Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste General approach
  • ST 6921 2023 ADD 1 Preparation for the Council (Environment) on 16 March 2023 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control) and Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste General approach
  • ST 6921 2023 INIT Preparation for the Council (Environment) on 16 March 2023 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control) and Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste General approach
  • ST 7613 2023 INIT Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on establishing a framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act)
  • ST 7613 2023 ADD 1 ANNEXES to the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing a framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act)
  • ST 7586 2023 INIT COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for cyantraniliprole in or on certain products
  • ST 7586 2023 ADD 1 ANNEX to the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for cyantraniliprole in or on certain products
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
  • CORRIGENDUM to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) …/… of 19 December 2022 amending Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 as regards hazard classes and criteria for the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (C(2022) 9383 final)

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