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Insight EU Environment Monitoring 26 January 2023

Jan 28, 2023 ,
industry, environmental pollution, smog
Reducing air pollution. Photo by SD-Pictures on Pixabay
PFAS
  • Banning PFASs in the EU – Media briefing on 7 February
BIODIVERSITY
  • EU Commission to refer six Member States to the Court of Justice for failing to prevent invasive alien species damaging European nature
AIR POLLUTION
  • Clean air: EU Commission calls on 14 Member States to reduce emissions of several air pollutants
  • Air quality: EU Commission calls on ESTONIA to correctly transpose EU air quality rules
WATER POLLUTION
  • EU Commission decides to refer IRELAND to the Court of Justice for failing to correctly transpose Water Framework Directive protecting waters from pollution
WASTE
  • EU Commission decides to refer SLOVAKIA to Court for failing to comply with EU rules on landfills
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
  • EU Commission decides to refer PORTUGAL to the Court of Justice for failing to correctly transpose EU Environmental impact assessment rules
NATURE PROTECTION
  • Nature: Eu Commission calls on ESTONIA to effectively manage its Natura 2000 sites
ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
  • Access to environmental information: Commission calls on FRANCE to improve citizens’ access to environmental information
ECOLABEL
  • EU Commission calls on GREECE to allow Greek companies to obtain EU Ecolabel and ensure market surveillance
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
  • EEA: Markets for many commonly recycled materials struggle in the EU
  • EEA: Investigating Europe′s secondary raw material markets
  • ReSet the Trend: EU calls on young people to promote circular and sustainable fashion
CRITICAL RAW MATERIALS
  • Ensuring access to critical materials for steel and wind sectors essential for EU clean-tech economy
PLASTICS
  • Plastics Europe and EuPC launch European Operation Clean Sweep® certification scheme
COSMETICS
  • Initiative citoyenne européenne réussie « Save Cruelty Free Cosmetics » présentée à la Commission
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
  • CM 1235 2023 INIT Informal videoconference of the members of the Working Party on International Environment Issues (WPIEI Desertification)
  • CM 1317 2023 INIT Second part of the first session of the ad hoc open-ended working group (OEWG 1.2) on a science-policy panel to contribute further to the sound management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution (Bangkok, Thailand, 30 January – 3 February 2023) – First EU coordination
  • CM 1327 2023 INIT Working Party on CONSUMER PROTECTION AND INFORMATION
EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER
  • OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directives 2005/29/EC and 2011/83/EU as regards empowering consumers for the green transition through better protection against unfair practices and better information – PE736.396v02-00
  • AMENDMENTS 629 – 1001 – Draft report Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for setting eco-design requirements for sustainable products and repealing Directive 2009/125/EC – PE740.733v01-00
  • AMENDMENTS 1002 – 1136 – Draft report Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for setting eco-design requirements for sustainable products and repealing Directive 2009/125/EC – PE740.760v02-00
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION adopting the sixteenth update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Continental biogeographical region
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION adopting the sixteenth update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION adopting the sixteenth update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Mediterranean biogeographical region
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION adopting the sixteenth update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Boreal biogeographical region
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION adopting the fourteenth update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Pannonian biogeographical region
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION adopting the tenth update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Macaronesian biogeographical region
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION adopting the sixteenth update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Atlantic biogeographical region
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION adopting the seventh update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Black Sea biogeographical region
  • COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) / amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for 1-methyl-3-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide (PAM), cycloxydim, cyflumetofen, cyfluthrin, metobromuron and penthiopyrad in or on certain products
  • COMMISSION DIRECTIVE (EU) …/ amending Directive 2009/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards 2-methyloxolane
SCCS BRIEFS
  • SCCS – Minutes of the Working Group meeting on Nanomaterials in Cosmetic Products of 18 January 2023

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