Environment

The European Parliament’s Environment Committee Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation in 2016 – A review

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This is a follow update of my review of the work of the Environment Committee’s scrutinising of delegated legislation in 2015. You can find that piece here.   Method I have reviewed the agenda of each meeting of the Environment Committee in 2016. For each challenge to a delegated legislative proposal,  I have tracked the … Read more

Europe’s Environmental Agenda – A Snap Shot for 2017

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I realise that I have been working on EU environmental policy for 25 years. I am looking forward to the next 25. One thing has been constant.  Tracking what is being developed and planned has never been easy. There are some excellent commercial databases, I like EU Issue Tracker, that does the job for you. … Read more

EDC Proposals Here

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  On 15 June the European Commission published their proposals on Endocrine Disruption Criteria. Please find the texts below. On 16 June, Commissioner Andriukaitis went to the European Parliament’s Environment Committee to explain his proposals.   You can watch the exchange. A9RA492 A9RA490

MEPs Vote on Endocrine Disruption – June 6 – 9

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Why the Resolution on Endocrine Next week the European Parliament will vote to adopt a Resolution on the state of play Endocrine Disruption and the non implementation of  last year’s European Court Judgement. All Parliamentary Groups have tabled their own particular versions (see here) and it will be interesting to see if a compromise is … Read more