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Insight EU Environment Monitoring 9 December 2022

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EPSCO COUNCIL
  • European Health Union: Commission welcomes adoption of new EU cancer screening recommendations
  • EU Council updates its recommendation to screen for cancer
  • Press Statement by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides following the EPSCO Council
  • Opening Remarks by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the EPSCO Council-Implementation of the Medical Devices Regulation
  • Remarks by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the EPSCO Council – Revised Recommendation on Cancer Screening
  • Remarks by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the EPSCO Council – European Health Data Space
  • Remarks by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the EPSCO Council- Revision Of the Pharmaceutical Legislation
  • Vaccination: Council calls for combatting vaccine hesitancy and closer EU cooperation
  • Opening Remarks by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the EPSCO Council – COVID-19 Vaccine Procurement
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
  • EU Council agrees its negotiating mandate on the environmental crime directive
BIOPLASTICS
  • Successful EUBP Conference: bioplastics industry set to engage with political stakeholders on upcoming legislation
GERMANY
  • Bundesumweltministerium unterstützt Ukraine im Umweltbereich mit 20 Millionen Euro Soforthilfe: Trinkwasser- und Energieversorgung sollen wiederhergestellt werden
EEA BRIEFS
  • Combined risk to health from road traffic noise and nitogen dioxide (NO2) levels (example of Brussels)
  • Timetrend of data from the German Environmental Specimen Bank for PFOS and PFOA
  • Measurements in urine samples from 20- to 29-year-old student volunteers of the German Environmental Specimen Bank
  • Premature deaths in the EU per 100,000 population by age range for both air pollution and lead exposure, 2019
  • Asbestos-related occupational diseases in Germany
  • CO2 concentrations in one classroom during the summer, assessed using CO2 traffic lights
  • Progress in the management of contaminated sites in the EU, total number of recorded remediated sites
  • Percentage of samples from the most commonly consumed food groups in Europe complying with legislation on pesticide residue levels
  • Classification of European bathing waters according to the quality requirements of the Bathing Water Directive, 2015-2021
  • Estimated number of people exposed to unhealthy noise levels, based on END thresholds, in the EU in 2007, 2012 and 2017
  • Trends in population-weighted average annual concentrations of PM2.5 in the most disadvantaged and least disadvantaged quintiles of EU-27 NUTS 3 regions, 2007-2019
  • EU Material Footprint, expressed in million tonnes of raw material equivalent
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
  • ST 15006 2022 ADD 4 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of the environment through criminal law – General approach – Declaration by the Hungarian delegation
  • ST 15723 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 Italia
  • ST 15869 2022 INIT Final follow-up report on the 8th round of mutual evaluations on “The practical implementation and operation of the European polices on preventing and combating Environmental Crime”
  • ST 15857 2022 INIT 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
  • ST 15857 2022 ADD 1 ANNEX to the 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
  • ST 15860 2022 INIT REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS The Third Clean Air Outlook
EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER
  • DRAFT REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on nature restoration – PE737.282v01-00
  • DRAFT REPORT on the proposal for a 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 – PE738.753v01-00
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION establishing the best available techniques (BAT) conclusions, under Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions, for the textiles industry
  • COMMISSION DECISION on the signature of a settlement agreement with Studio Galli Ingegneria and on the waiver of the recovery of a remainder of the claim
  • REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS The Third Clean Air Outlook
  • REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS First ‘zero pollution’ monitoring and outlook ‘Pathways towards cleaner air, water and soil for Europe’
SCHEER BRIEFS
  • SCHEER – Opinion open for comments on PCDDs, PCDFs, and DL-PCBs (deadline for comments: 13 January 2023)
  • SCHEER – Opinion open for comments on POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS (PBDEs) – deadline for comments: 13 January 2023
EFSA BRIEFS
  • Opinion on the re‐evaluation of sodium carboxy methyl cellulose (E 466) as a food additive in foods for infants below 16 weeks of age and follow‐up of its re‐evaluation as food additive for uses in foods for all population groups
  • Safety evaluation of the food enzyme containing cellulase, endo‐1,3(4)‐β‐glucanase and endo‐1,4‐β‐xylanase activities from the non‐genetically modified Trichoderma reesei strain AR‐256
  • Maintenance, update and further development of EFSA’s Chemical Hazards: OpenFoodTox 2.0
  • Cooperation partnerships
  • Safety assessment of the process Duy Tan Plastic Recycling, based on the Starlinger iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety assessment of the process Ester Industries, based on the recoSTAR PET FG technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety assessment of the process Alef Recycling, based on the Starlinger iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety assessment of the process EcoBlue, based on PET direct iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety assessment of the process rPET Aviv Shalam, based on the Starlinger iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety assessment of the process Poly Recycling, based on the VACUNITE (EREMA basic and Polymetrix SSP V‐leaN) technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
  • Safety evaluation of the food enzyme pectin lyase from the genetically modified Trichoderma reesei strain RF6199

 

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