In parallel to the ongoing European Commission process of simplifying and harmonising the rules of origin for EU trade agreements, the European Parliament has recently produced a briefing note on the latter. In this briefing the EP provides a useful background...
On Wednesday 17th of November, the European Commission put forward its new proposal for the shipment of waste. This consist of cracking down on illegal shipments and empowering reuse and recycling in the EU for waste streams such as that of textiles and plastics . The...
On 17/11/2021 the European Commission has published the proposal for the Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR) revision which fulfils the action under 2020 Circular Economy Action Plan. The proposal responds also to the call of the Green Deal and the Zero Pollution Action...
The European Commission launched a consultation procedure regarding Hexachlorobenzene, a substance listed in Annex A to the Stockholm Convention and in Annex I to EU Regulation 2019/1021. The initiative adds a limit value for the presence of hexachlorobenzene as...
In its recent recast of the POP’s Regulation, the Commission defined new values for ten different substances or families of POP substances in waste. Each of them are present in a variety of products including textiles and wastes which are of different relevance in...
The European Commission is preparing legislative measures eliminating or restricting the production and use of POPs, as defined in the Stockholm Convention. These measures are planned for the first quarter of 2022 and concerns: PBDEs (included in Annex I of Regulation...
