Resource Use, Waste & Chemicals

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• Winter Newsletter published

  The latest edition of IEEP's newsletter is now available with articles on the new EU Treaty, the impacts of biofuels on biodiversity, benefits of Natura 2000, and much more...

• Sourcebook on EU Environmental Law

  The Sourcebook provides a practical reference document on applicable EU environmental legislation, practices and standards which need to be taken into account in the planning and development of projects supported by Banks that have signed the ‘European Principles for the Environment'.

• 2014-2020 EU Multi-annual Financial Framework: Opportunities and Challenges for Climate Change and the Environment

  This presentation analyses the Commission proposals on the 2014-2020 Multi-annual Financial Framework unveiled on 29 June 2011. More specifically, it identifies opportunities and challenges for the financing of climate change and the environment in the future EU budget.

• An all-consuming responsibility

  This short paper highlights the challenges that the EU faces in delivering a resource efficient society and argues that achieving this would require action across a range of policy areas.

• Natural resources policy – the next frontier?

  Improved resource efficiency is considered the core environmental challenge alongside climate change. A new IEEP paper reviews the mixed results of previous EU Natural Resources policy and suggests a number of ways forward.

• EU Natural Resources policy: Signposts on the roadmap to sustainability

  The EU is committed to building improved resource efficiency into its economic strategy, starting with a “roadmap” this year. A new paper from the Institute sets out the challenges, reviews the mixed results of previous EU policy in this area and suggests a number of ways forward. Both a broad vision and an array of practical policy initiatives are required.

• Climate and the Budget: EU Member States and stakeholders discuss IEEP study at workshop

  More than 70 participants from European governments, the European Commission and other stakeholders gathered in Brussels on 28-29 March 2011 to discuss how the post-2013 EU budget should deal with investment needs in climate change and managing natural resources during a two-day workshop co-organised by IEEP together with the Dutch and Belgian governments.

• Review of the Waste Thematic Strategy

  This report supported the European Commission’s review of the Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste. It summarises available data on waste management in the EU, assesses progress towards the EU becoming a ‘recycling society’, outlines the achievements of the Waste Thematic Strategy, and makes recommendations for the development of future EU waste policies.

• Improving Enforcement of Waste Shipment Controls

  Should there be more explicit obligations for inspections of waste shipments in EU law? The Commission has launched a consultation drawing on IEEP’s work.

• IEEP Publication on the External Dimension of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy

  Marc Pallemaerts addresses the impact of the EU’s consumption of natural resources on the global environment with case studies of biofuels, the Common Fisheries Policy and the regulation of international trade in illegally harvested timber, in a new publication.

• Bio-waste Directive: the Journey so Far

  IEEP Analysis Briefing: Sustainable Consumption and Production

• IEEP’s Environmentally Harmful Subsidies Study Published

  The report is a contribution to the European Commission’s ongoing efforts to investigate and reform environmentally harmful subsidies (EHS).The study is based on three methodologies developed by the ...

• Study on Inspection Requirements for Waste Shipments

  A report written by IEEP, Bio and Ecologic has examined the challenge of inspection procedures and capacity to implement the EU Waste Shipment Regulation. It notes significant problems in Member States as well as good practice. It concludes with criteria that could be used to form the basis for assessment and enhancement of the capacity of inspectorates.

• Court of First Instance Quashes Commission Directive on Paraquat Due to Inadequate Assessment of Health and Environmental Risks

  EU Policy Briefing

• MEPs and Environment Ministers Discuss Waste and Natural Resource Use

  EU Policy Briefing

• REACH Compromise Deal Published

  EU Policy Briefing

• Analysis of an Amendment to Article 14 in the Council Common Position for adopting a Directive on Batteries and Accumulators and Waste Batteries and Accumulators and Repealing 91/157/EEC.

  This briefing provided additional information to the European Parliament Environment Committee to assist it with the decision as to whether a proposed ban on portable batteries with a lead content over ...

• EFIEA Workshop on Improving Waste Policy Through Integrated Environmental Assessment, 6 to 7 December 2004 Scotland House, Brussels: Workshop Proceedings (Jan 2005)

  The advancement of EU waste policy is one of the highest priorities on the EU environmental agenda. The development of a Thematic Strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste is one of ...

• Packaging for Sustainability: Packaging in the Context of the Product, Supply Chain and Consumer Needs, A report for INCPEN

  The European Commission is taking a closer look at the Packaging Directive, ten years after its adoption, and has to present a report to the European Parliament in June 2005. To inform ...

• Review of COM 671: European Commission proposal for a Regulation on the addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to food (COM(2003) 671)

  An analysis of Commission proposal for a Regulation on the addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to food (COM(2003) 671). In this Proposal, the Commission ...