Recently added articles from Europe Environment:
ENVIRONMENT : BOOST FOR MORE ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRIAL POLICY.
Jul 17, 2008 ... Little by little, European companies are adopting a more ecological approach. They are encouraged by the European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), which helps them assess their environmental performance. Not bad, but, believes the European Commission, it is possible to improve this ...
ENERGY EFFICIENCY : ECODESIGN DIRECTIVE TO COVER ALL ENERGY-RELATED PRODUCTS.
Jul 17, 2008 ... The European Commission published, on 16 July, its proposals to extend the Ecodesign Directive that sets compulsory minimum ecodesign requirements to all energy-related products. The directive currently covers all energy-using products such as boilers, water heaters, computers, televisions ...
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES : EU TO PROMOTE GREEN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT.
Jul 17, 2008 ... The European Commission published, on 16 July, a communication on green public procurement (GPP) aimed at providing guidance on both reducing the environmental impact caused by public sector consumption and using GPP to increase innovation in environmental technologies, products and ...
AGRICULTURE COUNCIL : MEMBER STATES UP IN ARMS AGAINST MODULATION OF AGRICULTURE AID.
Jul 17, 2008 ... EU agriculture ministers held their third debate, on 15 July, on proposals put forward by the European Commission as part of the Common Agricultural Policy health check'. The 27 EU member states said that a proposal relating to the transfer of funds from direct aid to rural development ...
ENERGY : OECD REPORT BLASTS BIOFUELS AS "COSTLY AND INEFFECTIVE".
Jul 17, 2008 ... The influential Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published a critical report on biofuel support policies, according to awhich government support in OECD countries, including 19 of the 27 EU member states, has had a "limited" impact on reducing greenhouse ...
AGRICULTURE : 90 MN EURO ALLOCATED FOR EU SCHOOL FRUIT SCHEME.
Jul 17, 2008 ... The European Commission proposed, on 8 July, to the 27 agriculture ministers the launch of a programme at the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year for the distribution of fruit and vegetables in schools. The action would have a budget of 90 million and would form part of the Strategy for ...
AGENDA.
Jul 17, 2008 ... Institutions1-2 September - Informal Transport Council (La Rochelle) 1-4 September - European Parliament plenary session (Strasbourg) 8-9 September - Informal Health Council (Anger) 21-22 September - Informal Agriculture Council (Annecy) 22-26 ...
AID FOR COMBINED TRANSPORT IN HUNGARY OKAYED.
Jul 17, 2008 ... The European Commission cleared, on 2 July, a Hungarian aid scheme worth 11.92 million in support of the rolling motorway' between Szeged (Hungary) and Wels (Austria). The rolling motorway is a combined transport ...
AID FOR RIVER TRANSPORT IN FRANCE AUTHORISED.
Jul 17, 2008 ... The European Commission authorised, on 2 July, a French aid scheme for inland waterway transport, with an overall budget of 16.5 million. This scheme will run from 2008 to 2012. It establishes aid in favour of the environment, modernising the fleet, enhancing security, and ...
CLIMATE CHANGE : BIG EMITTERS REACH MINIMALIST AGREEMENT.
Jul 17, 2008 ... Meeting on 9 July in Toyako (Japan), just after the meeting of the G8 on 7 and 8 July, the big emitters - the G8 (Japan, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Russia) plus the G5 (China, India, South Africa, Mexico and Brazil) - agreed on only one point, namely ...
EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION : BOARD SELECTION DRAWS HEAT FROM MEMBER STATES.
Jul 17, 2008 ... The selection process of the 18 members of the European Institute of Technology and Innovation's (EIT) Governing Board has turned into a nasty spat between a group of member states and the European Commission. Several EU nations, led by Slovakia, have slammed the draft list of board ...
ENVIRONMENT : BOOST FOR MORE ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRIAL POLICY.
Jul 17, 2008 ... Little by little, European companies are adopting a more ecological approach. They are encouraged by the European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), which helps them assess their environmental performance. Not bad, but, believes the European Commission, it is possible to improve this ...
COMMISSION ADVISES ON SUNSCREEN PRODUCTS.
Jul 17, 2008 ... Between 70% and 100% of sun creams sold by large manufacturers in the European Union should respect, this summer, the provisions of the recommendation adopted by the European Commission in autumn 2006, according to data transmitted by the industry. The EU executive warned consumers, on 14 ...
CONSUMERS : COMMISSION CONSULTS ON COMPLAINTS.
Jul 17, 2008 ... Meglena Kuneva, the European commissioner for consumer protection, wants to see the EU develop a harmonised way of dealing with complaints by dissatisfied consumers. She launched a public consultation, on 11 July, that will run until 3 October. The European Commission reports ...
FISHERIES : COMMISSION EASES AID PROCEDURES.
Jul 17, 2008 ... A new block exemption regulation, adopted on 2 July by the European Commission, simplifies the rules applying to state aid schemes in the fisheries sector. Member states will no longer have to notify certain types of aid to the Commission and await its approval, but will be allowed simply ...
FISHERIES : COMMISSION PROPOSES EMERGENCY MEASURES FOR FISHERMEN.
Jul 17, 2008 ... With the fisheries sector hit head-on by the surge in fuel prices, the European Commission presented, on 8 July, a set of urgent measures to help it cope(1). It is nevertheless maintaining its line on fisheries policy, ie giving precedence to restructuring measures while trying to ease the ...
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS : COMMISSION RETHINKS SIGNS OF QUALITY.
Jul 17, 2008 ... The European Commission's services have completed work on a green paper on agricultural products. This document, of less than 20 pages, should be adopted on 15 October. It will serve as a starting point for launching a broad public consultation on the future of the signs of quality at the ...
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY : COMMISSION SPOTLIGHTS PROBLEMS AND POTHOLES.
Jul 17, 2008 ... 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 under the 6th Environment Action Programme and put in place the necessary strategic framework, the ...
RESEARCH : COMMISSION TAKES TWO STEPS TOWARDS SINGLE RESEARCH MARKET.
Jul 17, 2008 ... With two initiatives unveiled by EU Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik, on 15 July, and adopted the following day, the European Commission is about to take two more steps towards the creation of a European Research Area (ERA), nicknamed the internal market for research'. Both ...
ENVIRONMENT : COMMISSION TO BOLSTER SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION.
Jul 17, 2008 ... The European Commission has approved an action plan for sustainable production and consumption that aims to break the link between environmental impact and economic growth by improving the environmental performance of manufacturing processes and products throughout their life cycle and ...