ECHA

• ECHA’s Risk Assessment Committee backs PFAS ban in firefighting foams
• Enforcement authorities to target PFCAs and related substances

WATER CONFERENCE

• New agenda sets sail with bold action as UN Water Conference closes
• UN Water Conference: reducing cross-border tensions
• UN World Water Conference ends in New York with ambitious agenda and over 660 voluntary commitments for better water protection

CRITICAL RAW MATERIALS

• Engere Zusammarbeit der nationalen geologischen Dienste von Deutschland und Frankreich, BGR und BRGM

INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY

• Conference: No European Green Deal without Lightweight Technology

GLUTAMATES

• BfR: Glutamic acid and glutamates (E 620-E 625): Assessment of health effects through their use as food additives

TATTOO INK

• Internationale Kommission für Tätowiermittel beim Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung einberufen

EUROPEAN HEALTH UNION

• Unfinished business: the challenge of ending tuberculosis in the European Region
• Exchange of views with EU Health Commissioner Kyriakides and Executive Director of EMA

GERMANY

• Astrid Cullmann: „Wasserknappheit und -verschmutzung auch in Deutschland wachsendes Problem“

SCCS & SCHEER BRIEFS

• SCHEER - Minutes of the WG on Draft Environmental Quality Standards for the Water Framework Directive Priority Substances & groundwater quality standards of 16 March 2023
• SCCS - Final Opinion on Hydroxyapatite (nano)
• SCCS - Final Opinion on Sodium bromothymol blue (C186) (CAS No. 34722-90-2, EC No. 252-169-7)

EU COUNCIL REGISTER

• CM 2195 2023 INIT Working Party on CONSUMER PROTECTION AND INFORMATION
• ST 7767 2023 INIT Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on common rules promoting the repair of goods and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2394, Directives (EU) 2019/771 and (EU) 2020/1828
• ST 7767 2023 ADD 1 ANNEXES to the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules promoting the repair of consumer goods and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2394, Directives (EU) 2019/771 and (EU) 2020/1828
• ST 6863 2023 ADD 1 Draft DECISION OF THE EU-UKRAINE ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE IN TRADE CONFIGURATION modifying Appendix XVII-3 (Rules applicable to telecommunication services) of Annex XVII to the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part
• ST 7767 2023 ADD 2 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules promoting the repair of goods and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2394, Directives (EU) 2019/771 and (EU) 2020/1828 - COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT Accompanying the document
• ST 7767 2023 ADD 3 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on on common rules promoting the repair of goods and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2394, Directives (EU) 2019/771 and (EU) 2020/1828 - COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT Accompanying the document
• ST 7767 2023 ADD 4 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules promoting the repair of consumer goods and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2394, Directives (EU) 2019/771 and (EU) 2020/1828 - REGULATORY SCRUTINY BOARD OPINION / Revision of the Sale of Goods Direct
• ST 7193 2023 INIT Draft Union submission by Member States and the Commission to the 10th session of the International Maritime Organization's Sub-Committee on Navigation, Communications and Search and Rescue commenting on the report of the 18th meeting of the Joint IMO/ITU Experts Group
• CM 2218 2023 INIT Working Party on International Environment Issues (Basel)
• CM 2209 2023 REV 1 Working Party on Forestry
• CM 2011 2023 REV 1 Informal videoconference of the members of the Working Party on Plants and Plant Health Questions (Pesticides/Plant Protection Products)
• CM 2183 2023 INIT Working Party on the Environment
• ST 7793 2023 INIT Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the sustainable use of plant protection products and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 [10654/22 - COM(2022) 305] - Opinion on the application of the Principles of Subsidiarity and Proportionality
• ST 7812 2023 INIT Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the sustainable use of plant protection products and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 - European Committee of the Regions' Opinion
• ST 7613 2023 ADD 2 COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Investment needs assessment and funding availabilities to strengthen EU's Net-Zero technology manufacturing capacity
• ST 7777 2023 INIT Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)
• ST 7786 2023 INIT REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the Implementation of the Environmental Noise Directive in accordance with Article 11 of Directive 2002/49/EC
• ST 7786 2023 ADD 1 ANNEX to the REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the Implementation of the Environmental Noise Directive in accordance with Article 11 of Directive 2002/49/EC
• ST 7746 2023 INIT COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for bixafen, cyprodinil, fenhexamid, fenpicoxamid, fenpyroximate, flutianil, isoxaflutole, mandipropamid, methoxyfenozide, and spinetoram in or on certain products
• ST 7746 2023 ADD 1 ANNEX to the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for bixafen, cyprodinil, fenhexamid, fenpicoxamid, fenpyroximate, flutianil, isoxaflutole, mandipropamid, methoxyfenozide, and spinetoram in or on certain products
• ST 7746 2023 ADD 2 ANNEX to the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for bixafen, cyprodinil, fenhexamid, fenpicoxamid, fenpyroximate, flutianil, isoxaflutole, mandipropamid, methoxyfenozide, and spinetoram in or on certain products

EU COMMISSION REGISTER

• COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION not granting a Union authorisation for the single biocidal product “Insecticide Textile Contact”

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