Our European Public Policy team is pleased to share with you our monthly newsletter, Sustainability Outlook – European Union which looks at key developments in EU sustainability law and policy.
This month’s edition includes the following:
- Council discusses the progress of the “Fit for 55” package
- European Commission expected to set out a policy on sustainable carbon cycles
- European Commission sets out how to “make competition policy fit for new challenges”
- European Commission proposes new rules on waste shipments
- European Commission publishes guidance on plastic waste shipments
- EU court clarifies the rules on classification of waste for its transfrontier transport
- Member States back new rules on industrial emissions from large combustion plants
- European Commission adopts a proposal for a regulation on deforestation-free products
- European Commission proposes to set “new limits for some of the most harmful chemicals in waste”
- European Commission prepares further changes to concentration limits for POPs
- European Commission publishes exemptions on phthalates in medical devices
- European Commission lifts exemptions for uses of DEHP in medicinal products
- Council and European Commission hold workshops on REACH authorisations and restrictions
- European Commission asks for more time to discuss endocrine disruptors and polymers
- European Commission reports on progress with the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability
- European Commission expected to adopt a restriction roadmap, considering measures on flame retardants
- ECHA finds effects of REACH authorisation regime
- ECHA publishes a report on chemical recycling
- ECHA launches a social media campaign to raise awareness regarding poison centres
- EFSA consults on phthalates in food contact materials
- EU court upholds identification of PTBP as a substance of very high concern
- Italy expected to postpone the application of its plastic tax again
- UK consults on bans of single-use plastic products
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