Environment

If you want to get an impression of the remaining Green Deal proposals that DG Environment plans to publish before the end of the mandate, you should watch yesterday evening’s exchange of views with Commissioner  Sinkevičius. It is the first time the Commissioner has publicly hinted that new flow of new legislative may ease up, … Read more

On Monday, the Heads of Cabinet adopted items for the College to adopt from 24 May to 19 September that dropped some expected Food and Biodiversity proposals.   By Wednesday, those proposals had returned.   I’d like to see the official minutes of HEBDO to understand what led to the delay. Maybe the calls from … Read more

If you missed the exchange on the revision of REACH today, you can watch it here.       Below is the Otter transcript   Bas EICKHOUT 0:05 Final hour this morning. With item number eight on the agenda next change of view with the Commission on the Future revision of the Reach regulation. I … Read more

When you are eye is focused on the big-picture legislative agenda, you are going to miss the important files. For years I’ve always been a small minority in thinking that the eco-design legislation would have a profound impact. If you are a regulator, it has big advantages. If you get a measure on the agenda, … Read more