Speech of Commissioner Dimas gives an overview of the environmental priorities for 2009. This speech was delivered on 19 May 2008 to Members of Environment Committee of the European Parliament.
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has released its fourth
assessment report on the environmental situation in 53 European
countries, highlighting significantair pollution,biodiversity loss
and ...
Early July, the EEB has published its Memorandum to the Portugese EU Presidency. This document describes what the environmental NGOs expect from the Portugese Presidency in coming 6 months not only in...
The next EU Environment Council will take place in Luxembourg on 28 June 2007 under the Presidency of Mr. Sigmar Gabriel, Federal Minister for the environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety o...
On 13 June the European Environmental Bureau/EEB has published its response to the mid-term review of the Sixth Community Environment Action Programme (6th EAP). The EEB believes that the EU has yet t...
The EU Regulation on the REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) entered into force on 1 June 2007. The official start date of REACH symbolically marks the beginning of a new...
As every year, Brussels is getting ready for Green Week which will start on 12 June and last until 15 June. Linking with the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, Green Week will have a look at Euro...
New issue of the EEB's newsletter METAMORPHOSIS has been published recently. After a break more than two years information about the Accession, Candidate and pre-Candidate countries is back in its...
Every six months, the government Presiding over the Council changes, each Member State taking its turn. The Presidency is responsible for setting the agendas of all the Councils of Ministers, the Euro...
A fund and a five-year programme to help poor countries deal with floods and droughts look set to be adopted at a United Nations conference on global warming in Nairobi. But little progress is expecte...
On 13 November 2006, the European Commission adopted a Communication setting out its agenda for revising the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) in the light of experience gained since it began opera...
The Environment Council took place on 23 October in Luxemburg. Among others, the Council reached political agreement on a draft directive on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe, adopted Cou...
Public participation in environmental decision-making is to be strengthened after EU Ministers agreed to the principles of the Aarhus Convention. But they stopped short of allowing NGOs the right to d...
A new Commission's report, published on 21 September 2006, shows that the number of infringement cases opened by the European Commission for breaches of EU environmental legislation went down sign...
The European Parliament has angered the European Commission and environmentalists by watering down key aspects of proposed new air quality EU legislation. On 26 September, MEPs voted to postpone until...
On 18 July, the European Commission published online the first consolidated European inventory of pollution from small, scattered sources such as cars, airplanes, ships, household boilers and small fa...
The biodiversity of the ten new Member States which joined the EU in 2004 is particularly rich. It is crucial for the EU to protect it in order to halt biodiversity loss in Europe by 2010. Significant...
Increased eco-efficiency, new ecotaxes and abolishing harmful subsidies are the main elements of the new generation of EU environment policy advocated by the Finnish Presidency during the informal mee...
Limit values on pollution caused by vehicle fuel exhausts and agriculture could be tightened if the EP follows the opinion of its environment committee in September. Environmentalists say the new limi...
A large majority of bathing sites across the EU-25 continued to meet EU cleanliness standards in 2005 - thus according to the annual bathing water report presented by the European Commission on June 9...
The next EU Environment Council meeting will take place on June 26 - 27th, 2006 in Luxembourg. Today, the EEB has sent the letter to the Environment Ministers of the EU Member States offering...
The Commission is preparing for the mid-term review of the 6th Environmental Action Programme (6th EAP). In order to get input from different stakeholders, it has opened an internet consultation where...
On 22 May, 2006 the European Commission adopted a Communication which sets out an ambitious policy approach to halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010. In particular, it provides an EU Action Plan wh...
On 16 May, Z006 the European Environmental Bureau released a report "Drowning in Process? The implementation of the EU's 6th Environmental Action Programme" prepared by IEEP(Institute for European...
The aim of this call for proposals is to identify projects, which might be eligible for financial support from DG Environment. Themes covered are: - Environmental communication and awareness raising...
The EU Environment Council will take place on March 9th, 2006 under the Presidency of Mr. Josef Pröll, Federal Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management of Austria. Among the...
Mercury and its compounds are highly toxic to humans, ecosystems and wildlife. When entering the waste stream, mercury-using products can change into methylmercury, its most toxic form. Methylmercury ...
On February 16th, Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas set out his broad priorities for this year as the European Commission published its annual Environment Policy Review (EPR) for 2005. The Review...
