Environment

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

At the start of the year, I wanted to get a sober assessment of what the environmental legislative agenda looks like for the 2023. It will be busy. So busy that I wonder how the legislative machinery in the Environment Committee and the Environment Council Working Group will deliver agreements before the April 2024 recess. … Read more