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Insight EU Environment Monitoring 3 March 2023

Mar 7, 2023 ,
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How to achieve sustainability of the textile industry. Photo by DWilliam on Pixabay
CHEMICAL TESTING
  • Chemical testing: New safety animal-free test methods approved
SUBSTANCES & MIXTURES
  • Briefing – Revision of the EU Regulation on classification, labeling, and packaging of substances and mixtures – PE 740.223 – Committee on the Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety – ENVI – European Parliament
MICROPLASTICS
  • EIB publishes new report on microplastics and micropollutants during Our Ocean conference
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
  • Innovation, Transparency and Traceability: A Must in the Clothing Industry
SUPPLY CHAINS
  • Downstream due diligence in the European mining equipment industry – Germanwatch e.V.
  • SWP: Die Zukunft europäisch-chinesischer Rohstofflieferketten: Drei Szenarien für das Jahr 2030 – und was sich daraus ergibt
OCEAN PROTECTION
  • RELEASE: Ocean Panel Countries Call for a Shift Towards Sustainable Tourism to Safeguard the Ocean and Future of the Tourism Industry – WRI World Resources Institute
PESTICIDES
  • EPP Group: Green proposal will decrease wheat, apple, olive, tomato production in Europe
  • Pesticide reduction proposal unacceptable for ECR
EEA
  • Annual MEPs’ exchange with EEA, Neonics and Pollinators Initiative
CARCINOGENS
  • Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan: Arsenic levels lowered in food products to increase food safety and fight cancer
COVID-19 MONITORING
  • ECDC de-escalates BA.2, BA.4 and BA.5 from its list of variants of concern
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
  • CM 1862 2023 INIT Working Party on the Environment
  • CM 1886 2023 INIT Working Party Meeting on Technical Harmonisation (Dangerous Substances – Chemicals)
  • CM 1913 2023 INIT Informal videoconference of the members of the Working Party on Commodities (PROBA)
  • ST 7085 2023 INIT Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union at the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal with regard to certain amendments of Articles in that Convention.
  • ST 6931 2023 ADD 1 COR 1 ANNEXES to the Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on specific rules relating to the entry into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom of certain consignments of retail goods, plants for planting, seed potatoes, machinery and certain vehicles operated for agricultural or forestry purposes
  • ST 6931 2023 COR 1 Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on specific rules relating to the entry into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom of certain consignments of retail goods, plants for planting, seed potatoes, machinery and certain vehicles operated for agricultural or forestry purposes
  • ST 5036 2023 REV 2 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 – Presidency compromise proposal
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
  • COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) / amending Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 as regards maximum levels of arsenic in certain foods
  • Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union at the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal with regard to certain amendments of Articles in that Convention.
  • COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) / amending, for the purpose of its adaptation to technical progress, the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 440/2008 laying down test methods pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals
  • COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) / amending Annexes II, III and V to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for isoxaben, novaluron and tetraconazole in or on certain products
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) /… authorising the placing on the market of bovine milk osteopontin as a novel food and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470
EFSA BRIEFS
  • Assessment of the feed additive consisting of Pediococcus pentosaceus DSM 23376 for all animal species for the renewal of its authorisation (Agri‐King, Inc.)
  • Targeted review of maximum residue levels (MRLs) for bifenthrin
  • Prioritisation of zoonotic diseases for coordinated surveillance systems under the One Health approach for cross‐border pathogens that threaten the Union
  • Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of semi‐refined carrageenan for cats and dogs (Gel Systems Ltd.)

 

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