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The European Commission approved three Decisions on September 3 and 4 extending the validity of or establishing new criteria for the award of the European ecological label to interior paints [...]

The European Commission has decided to give mandates to the European =Union Eco-labelling Board (EUEB) to draw up and/or review eco-label =criteria and to define assessment and verification requirements for [...]

The European Parliament has given a favourable welcome to the European Commission's Green Paper on the future of maritime policy, published in June 2006, and supported an 'integrated' approach that [...]

A delegation from the Youth Eco-Parliament has officially submitted a White Paper on the environment during a ceremony held in Brussels. Present at the ceremony were Prince Laurent of Belgium [...]

The European Commission's green paper on maritime policy could recommend a new legal framework and new institutions to deal with Europe's coastal areas, EU Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg told representatives [...]

Following close on the solemn commitment by the EU27, at the last EU summit of heads of state and government, to make drastic cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, [...]

The European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E) says the White Paper 'lacks a clear vision' and, in any case, fails to meet the sustainable transport requirements raised at the [...]

Jointly presented by Erkki Liikanen, the Enterprise Commissioner, and the Environment Commissioner, Margot Wallstrom, the White Paper is intended to balance the essential need to protect human health and promote [...]

On the eternal conflict between maximum and minimum harmonisation, MEPs acknowledge that the former can be effective in ironing out the fragmentation of business and consumer legislation. However, they say [...]

The peripheral maritime regions of the EU are calling for the European Commission's green paper on territorial cohesion to be followed by a white paper, allowing this debate to be [...]

In a new paper for the European Policy Centre (EPC), Jorgen Henningsen, a former director in the European Commission's DG Environment, gives a mixed review of the Union's energy and [...]

Adapting to climate change does not stop us from fighting climate change' is the principle underlying the Green Paper on Adapting to Climate Change in Europe, adopted by the European [...]

On 22 May, the European Commission issued a Green Paper on safer ship dismantling, which represents the first stage 'in the development of an EU strategy in this area.' As [...]

Representatives of Europe's engineering industry have stated their position on the future of the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS). In a new position paper, Orgalime (the European Engineering Industries [...]

The Green Paper on the dismantling of ships, originally scheduled to be adopted by the European Commission on 21 March, is now to be the subject of an exploratory debate [...]

In its opinion adopted on 15 March on the revised White Paper on the European transport policy, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) stresses the role that public transport [...]

The European Commission, which was scheduled to adopt a Green Paper on the dismantling of defunct ships, has postponed its decision because the dossier is not yet 'ripe'. A new [...]

At a breakfast meeting with US environmentalist Lester Brown, Green MEPs set out a position paper on food security and plant fuels entitled Food First'. Green MEPs Rebecca Harms, Satu [...]

Members of the European Parliament, during their plenary session in Strasbourg on 14 December, presented the European Commission with their understanding of the Green Paper on energy policy. Not surprisingly, [...]

More than 10 years after the European Commission published its Green Paper on Innovation, David White suggests 'nothing has changed since'. Responsible for innovation policy at the Commission's Enterprise Directorate-General, [...]

The MEP in charge of drafting the European Parliament's opinion on the White Paper on services of general interest is against pushing for a framework directive. German socialist Bernhard Rapkay [...]

Representatives of 'downstream' chemical production industries (leather, textiles, iron and steel, cement, ceramics, paper, rubber, etc.) lambasted the Commission's new approach to registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals. Their key [...]

This topic is of the Spanish Presidency's priorities. The discussion paper it issued to the Council recalls that in common with air and water, soil is one of the key [...]

Forests plan challenged.The conference adopted a plan for combating the accelerating disappearance of tropical forests, which Greenpeace promptly dismissed as a 'paper tiger'. The plan was the fruit of a [...]

The European Commission claims to be well aware of this 'democratic deficit' and this is why it wanted to use its White Paper on Governance as a springboard to launch [...]

The European Commission claims to be well aware of this 'democratic =deficit' and this is why it wanted to use its White Paper on Governance =as a springboard to launch [...]

The paper exposes the EEB's views on the on-going revision of EU waste policy and assesses critically certain suggestions from industry federations. Christian Hey, the EEB's EU Policy Director is [...]

Parliament has thus adopted its position on the 'Green Paper on environmental issues relating to PVC' published by the Commission on 26 July 2000 (see European Report No 2521 for [...]

The European Commission issued a consultation paper on 28 March designed to help in drafting a 'Community strategy on sustainable development' in time for the Gothenburg Summit on 15-16 June, [...]

The 'Green Paper on Environmental Issues relating to PVC' aimed to launch a public debate to help the Commission decide what attitude to take to PVC waste. It makes a [...]

The January 2000 paper and the new Communication (COM(2001)144) form part of the European Commission's response to the European Council at Cardiff in June 1998 which invited all relevant formations [...]

* Environmental liability in Europe: This seminar, taking place in Brussels on 6 February, discusses the European Union White Paper on making the polluter pay for transnational pollution, and its [...]

The European Commission has launched its public consultation on a revised action plan for energy efficiency. The consultation is open till 3 August. The Commission should, later in 2009 or [...]

The ageing of the population, environmental challenges, immigration, the depletion of fossil fuels and growing urbanisation are among the trends - and challenges - that transport policy will have to [...]

The representatives of 140 countries decided unanimously to launch negotiations for an international treaty to control mercury production and supply with a view to reducing global emissions and discharge of [...]

Following the publication of the European Commission's communication on the Common Fisheries Policy, the French district of Finistere is preparing to present, in Brussels on 10 February, its proposal for [...]

The hyperactive French EU Presidency led by Nicolas Sarkozy has relieved the Czech Republic of several thorny issues: the energy-climate change package, CO2 emissions from cars and fuel quality. The [...]

Europe has a coastline of approximately 70,000 kilometres. Twenty-three out of the 27 EU member states have a coastline and two-thirds of EU borders are coasts. Managing the risks associated [...]

The European Commission is making waves with member states: though the Commission says in its 2007 report on environmental policy that it has fulfilled almost all of its commitments made [...]

Unless there is a last-minute hitch during the second reading vote in the European Parliament, on 18 June (co-decision procedure), the new Framework Directive on waste management will be formally [...]

The European Commission has rendered a positive opinion on the 2008 work programme proposed by the European Environment Agency (EEA). This programme reflects the general priorities of the EU executive [...]

As preparations continue for December's crucial UN summit on climate change in Bali, the US Senate is getting increasingly vocal in opposing the environmental policies of US President George Bush. [...]

The ban on mercury imports should come into force on 1 July 2011: the EU ministers of the environment, gathered in Luxembourg on 28 June, finalised the principles and timeline. [...]

With the effects of climate change already perceptible, the European Commission believes that it is possible to take a certain number of adaptation measures at EU level right now to [...]

A study to measure carbon dioxide emissions of the European Parliament (EP) has been commissioned by the EP's Bureau with the aim of significantly reducing them. Study findings should be [...]

The coal industry association EURACOAL has called for caution in moving forward on carbon capture and storage (CCS). Although supporting construction and operation of up to 12 demonstration plants, the [...]

As of 1 June 2007, manufacturers, importers and interested parties will have 18 months to comply with their first obligations falling under the new European system for the registration, evaluation, [...]

Operations financed by the European Investment Bank (EIB) in the transport sector are directly opposed to Community objectives in the fight against climate change. This is the conclusion reached by [...]

The Fisheries Council is expected, on 16 April, to adopt measures on eel and hold a debate on cod stocks in Baltic sea, as well as an exchange of views [...]

The EU is seeking to step up its cooperation with the energy-rich region of Central Asia. 'EU enlargement has brought us closer to Central Asia and the time is ripe [...]