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The IA provides a good overview of the problems relating to packaging and packaging waste, and the possible impacts of the various measures proposed to address the problems. In its assessment, which is both qualitative and quantitative, the IA relies on a wealth of data sources and modelling. However, it does not clearly indicate the IA supporting studies and their full references; this would have improved transparency. The IA presents three policy options, which are partially incremental and cannot ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global, multidimensional phenomenon occurring in humans, animals, and environmental ecosystems. It is the ability of microbes, e.g. bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa, to survive in the presence of medicines designed to kill or inactivate them (antimicrobials: antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals and antiprotozoals). At patient level, AMR hampers the effective treatment of microbial infections, leading to prolonged, severe disease and, in some cases, death. ...

Le règlement sur l’ozone, en vigueur depuis janvier 2010, est le principal instrument juridique régissant les substances qui appauvrissent la couche d’ozone (SACO). En avril 2022, la Commission européenne a proposé un nouveau règlement sur les SACO qui vise à accroître l’efficacité des mesures et règles existantes et à assurer un suivi plus complet, tout en simplifiant les procédures administratives et en réduisant les coûts. Le Parlement européen devrait voter sur la proposition lors de la période ...

Le 5 avril 2022, la Commission européenne a présenté une proposition de règlement relatif aux gaz à effet de serre fluorés, qui abrogerait le règlement sur les gaz fluorés en vigueur. La proposition vise à réduire davantage les émissions de gaz à effet de serre fluorés. Elle modifierait le système de quotas existant et réduirait progressivement l’offre d’hydrofluorocarbones (HFC) sur le marché de l’Union pour atteindre 2,4 % des niveaux de 2015 d’ici à 2048. Elle interdirait également les gaz à effet ...

A revision of the Detergents Regulation is expected to be published in the first quarter of 2023. The revision of the regulation is aimed at ensuring consistency with other EU chemicals legislation, adapting the legislation to technical progress as well as reducing administrative burdens. In the context of the EU chemicals strategy for sustainability, provisions may be introduced or reinforced to take account of the combination effects of chemicals and to extend the generic approach to risk management ...

The EU has the world's largest carbon-pricing system, the emissions trading system (ETS). Emissions pricing can encourage industrial decarbonisation, but it also risks carbon leakage, whereby EU companies move their production abroad. To date, the EU has mitigated this risk through free allocations to certain industries, but with rising climate ambition and higher carbon prices, the Commission is now seeking to phase out free allocations. A new carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) would also ...

This EPRS paper analyses progress made in carrying through the policy agenda set by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and her College of Commissioners when they took office in December 2019. It looks in particular at the state of play with respect to delivery of the agenda's six key priorities, as we enter the final year running up to the 2024 European elections. The von der Leyen Commission – either on taking office or more recently – has announced a total of 597 planned ...

In July 2021, the European Commission put forward the 'fit for 55' package of legislative proposals, aimed at ensuring the success of the European Green Deal. The FuelEU Maritime regulation is one of these proposals and, together with four other proposals, it seeks to steer the EU maritime sector towards decarbonisation. To support the uptake of sustainable maritime fuels, the Commission proposes to limit the carbon intensity of the energy used on board ships. Accordingly, the proposal sets a fuel ...

According to the European Commission, the manufacturing and trade in firearms, their essential components and ammunition employs around 150 000 people in the EU. Following the terrorist attacks in the EU of the last decade, the EU decided to update its legislation on civilian firearms. In 2020, the Commission adopted the 2020-2025 action plan on firearms trafficking to help curb illegal flows of firearms, and ammunition, while also strengthening the legal market. The publication of Directive (EU) ...

La législation de l’Union sur la répartition de l’effort couvre les émissions de gaz à effet de serre (GES) dans les secteurs qui n’avaient pas été inclus dans le système d’échange de quotas d’émission de l’Union européenne (SEQE). Afin de réduire les émissions dans ces secteurs pour la période 2021-2030, le règlement sur la répartition de l’effort (RRE) fixe des objectifs nationaux contraignants et établit des quotas annuels d’émissions (QAE) pour chaque État membre. En juillet 2021, la Commission ...