Car exhaust (BRUSSELS) – The European Commission announced Thursday that it is to open infringement procedures against the 7 EU Member States for their handling of the dieselgate scandal.The Czech…
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Safety tests conducted by the chemical industry and used by regulators to assess the dangers of pesticides must be disclosed, the EU’s top…
The EU Ecolabel is a voluntary award scheme for the most environmentally friendly products on the market. New legislation (Regulation 66/2010) published recently has tried to improve the use and…
The Waste Framework Directive creates a new framework for waste management in the EU in order to encourage the re-use and the recycling of waste materials and to simplify existing…
The new EU Directive 2010/30/EC recasts the old Directive 92/75/EEC on the indication by labelling and standard product information of the consumption of energy and other resources by household appliances.…
EU Member States supported today proposed rules for auctioning emission allowances valid for the third trading period of the EU ETS starting in 2013 as well as allowances to be…
The European Commission asks Poland to comply with EU environmental legislation in the area of flood prevention and risk management.Poland has failed to inform the Commission about the implementation of…
The European Commission today adopted a decision which determines for the first time a ceiling or ‘cap’ on the number of emission allowances that will be available under the EU…
Clearer rules and cleaner air are among the aims of the Industrial Emissions Directive approved by the European Parliament on Wednesday. Stricter limits will apply for air pollution, for example,…
Compulsory separate collection and recycling of biowaste should be a central plank of a new EU biowaste directive, said MEPs in a resolution adopted on Tuesday.Every year, between 118 and…
