EU Environment Policy
- Tackling climate change
- Innovation framework
- Agriculture & land-use planning
- Business: Environmental responsability
- Cleaner transport
- Transport targets
- Road & air transport
- Ecodesign requirements — electric motors and variable speed drives
- The new EU accreditation and verification regulation
- Charging vehicles for using roads
- Cleaner fuels for road transport
- Clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles
- Framework for creation of the single European sky (SES)
- Greenhouse gas emission allowance trading and aviation
- Rail, maritime & waterway transport
- Clean, efficient energy
- Ecodesign requirements — external power supplies
- The future of carbon capture and storage in Europe
- 2030 climate and energy framework – greenhouse gas emissions, land use change and forestry
- Climate action — binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions (2021–2030)
- Air pollution from medium combustion plants
- Moving toward competitive sustainable and secure energy for Europe
- Encouraging the use of biomass as an alternative source of energy
- Ecodesign requirements — welding equipment
- Ecodesign requirements — power transformers
- Secure & sustainable energy
- Energy efficiency
- Eco-design for energy-using appliances
- The Energy Charter Treaty and Protocol
- Energy performance of buildings
- Energy efficiency: helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security
- Energy efficiency
- Energy consumption: Framework for labelling rules
- Electric and gas-powered vehicles — recharging/refuelling stations
- Efficient and safe hot-water boilers
- Ecodesign requirements — welding equipment
- Ecodesign requirements — servers and data storage products
- Ecodesign requirements — power transformers
- Ecodesign requirements — external power supplies
- Ecodesign requirements — electric motors and variable speed drives
- Ecodesign and energy labelling requirements — washing machines and household washer-dryers
- Ecodesign and energy labelling requirements — household refrigerators
- Ecodesign and energy labelling — refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function
- Ecodesign and energy labelling — light sources and separate control gear
- Ecodesign and energy labelling — household dishwashers
- Ecodesign and energy labelling — electronic displays
- Renewable energy
- EU climate change policy
- EU policy framework for climate and energy (2020 to 2030)
- Moving towards a low-carbon economy in 2050
- Long-term climate policy
- Reducing greenhouse gases
- EU registry of emissions trading system allowances (2013–2020)
- The new EU accreditation and verification regulation
- Union registry for emissions trading system allowances
- Sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions-saving criteria and low indirect land-use change-risk criteria
- 2030 climate and energy framework – greenhouse gas emissions, land use change and forestry
- Combating illegal logging
- Climate action — binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions (2021–2030)
- Mechanism for monitoring greenhouse gases
- Greenhouse gas emission allowance trading system
- Reducing human-made greenhouse gases (fluorinated gases)
- Reducing greenhouse gases by 2020: Effort Sharing Decision
- EU emissions trading system — auctioning regulation
- Emissions Trading System — Innovation Fund rules
- Monitoring & adapting to climate change
- International agreements
- EU registry of emissions trading system allowances (2013–2020)
- The Road from Paris: assessing the implications of the Paris Agreement on fighting climate change
- Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
- Tackling global climate change after 2020 (Paris Protocol)
- United Nations (UN) climate change negotiations — an overview
- UN climate negotiations: Kyoto Protocol — second commitment period
- UN climate negotiations: Kyoto Protocol — first commitment period
- The EU and the 2015 International Climate Change Agreement
- Conservation of African-Eurasian migratory waterbirds
- Climate change – Paris Agreement, ratified by EU
- Bonn Agreement — dealing with pollution of the North Sea by oil and other harmful substances, including air pollution caused by shipping
- Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer
- Air
- Emissions of volatile organic compounds in paints, varnishes and vehicle refinishing products
- Uniform rules concerning the approval of retrofit emission control devices (REC)
- Carbon dioxide capture and storage
- Cleaner air for Europe
- Air pollution from medium combustion plants
- EU rules on national emissions of certain atmospheric pollutants
- Geneva Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
- Petrol vapour recovery at filling stations for cleaner air
- Substances depleting the ozone layer
- Chemicals
- Safer detergents for European consumers
- Tackling threats posed by chemicals (Stockholm Convention)
- European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) – how the European Union regulates chemicals
- Major accidents involving dangerous chemicals
- Minamata Convention on Mercury
- International trade in hazardous chemicals (Rotterdam Convention)
- Hazardous chemicals — rules on export and import
- Nature & biodiversity
- Ensuring trade in wild fauna and flora does not threaten their survival
- Vulnerable marine ecosystems: protection from bottom fishing on the high seas
- The role of zoos in the conservation of biodiversity
- Voluntary partnership agreements on forest law enforcement, governance and trade
- Trade in seal products
- Wildlife trafficking — EU action plan
- Conservation of wild birds
- Conservation of fisheries resources and protection of marine ecosystems
- Conservation of certain stocks of migratory fish
- Bern Convention
- Alien and locally absent species
- Convention on the conservation of migratory species of wild animals — Bonn Convention
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
- Convention on Biological Diversity — Cartagena protocol on biosafety
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Multiannual recovery plan for Mediterranean swordfish
- Programme for the environment and climate action (LIFE) (2021-2027)
- OSPAR Convention
- Protection of laboratory animals
- Protecting Europe’s biodiversity (Natura 2000)
- Protecting biodiversity from invasive alien species
- EU biodiversity strategy for 2030
- Noise
- Soil & forests
- Safe and effective fertilising products on the EU market
- Voluntary partnership agreements on forest law enforcement, governance and trade
- Using sewage sludge in farming
- Combatting deforestation
- Combating illegal logging
- Licensing system for imports of timber to the EU
- Genetically modified food & feed
- Landfill of waste
- International Tropical Timber Agreement
- Regulating GM crops: EU countries’ rights
- Waste
- Disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs)
- Waste statistics
- Use, storage and trade of mercury
- Urban waste water treatment
- Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal
- EU waste management law
- Management of waste from extractive industries
- Making the most of waste electrical and electronic equipment
- Landfill of waste
- Port facilities for waste from ships, including cargo residues
- Packaging and packaging waste
- Removal and disposal of disused offshore oil and gas installations
- Safe waste shipments within the EU and with non-EU countries
- Reducing the consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags in the EU
- Radioactive waste & spent fuel - safety rules
- Radioactive waste shipments - supervision and control
- Single-use plastics – fighting the impact on the environment
- Shipments of radioactive substances
- Restriction on the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment
- Disposal of spent batteries
- Recycling
- Water
- Fighting water pollution from agricultural nitrates
- Using alumina to remove fluoride from mineral waters
- Urban waste water treatment
- Bathing water quality
- Addressing water scarcity and droughts in the EU
- EU water resources protection plan
- Flood-risk management in the EU
- Minimum requirements for water reuse
- Good-quality water in Europe (EU water directive)
- Protection of groundwater against pollution
- Radioactive substances in water intended for human consumption: protection of public health
- Single-use plastics – fighting the impact on the environment
- Drinking water — essential quality standards
- Environmental quality standards applicable to surface water
- Coastal & marine environment
- EU maritime information and exchange system
- Vulnerable marine ecosystems: protection from bottom fishing on the high seas
- Conservation of fisheries resources and protection of marine ecosystems
- Conservation of Antarctic marine living resources
- Barcelona Convention for the protection of the Mediterranean
- Bonn Agreement — dealing with pollution of the North Sea by oil and other harmful substances, including air pollution caused by shipping
- Helsinki Convention on the protection of the Baltic Sea
- OSPAR Convention
- Safety of offshore oil and gas operations
- Safer and less polluting equipment on EU ships
- Protecting the sea and the food chain from the effects of organotin compounds
- Single-use plastics – fighting the impact on the environment
- Strategy for the marine environment
- Industry & pollution
- European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)
- Transboundary effects of industrial accidents
- Management of waste from extractive industries
- Industrial emissions
- Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
- Recovery of petrol vapours during storage
- Ship-source pollution and criminal penalties
- Ship recycling
- Pollution from vehicles
- Emission limits and type-approval rules for non-road mobile machinery
- CO2 emissions and fuel consumption of heavy-duty vehicles
- CO2 emission performance standards for new heavy-duty vehicles
- Monitoring and reporting the CO2 emissions of heavy-duty vehicles
- Fuels — reducing sulphur content
- Information on the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of new cars
- Reduction in CO2 emissions of new passenger cars and of new light commercial vehicles
- Reducing pollution from light motor vehicles
- Quality of petrol and diesel fuels: sulphur and lead
- End-of-life vehicles
- Emissions from heavy-duty vehicles (Euro VI): certification rules
- Emissions from air-conditioning systems in motor vehicles
- Environmental agencies & bodies
- Environmental controls & assessments
- Reliable benchmarking of environmental performance
- The precautionary principle
- The polluter-pays principle and environmental liability
- The EU’s infrastructure for spatial information (Inspire)
- Better environmental performance: European eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS)
- Assessment of the effects of projects on the environment (EIA)
- Assessment of the certain effects of plans and programmes on the environment (SEA)
- Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention) and the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA Protocol)
- Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
- Integration of environmental aspects into European standardisation
- Environmental crime
- Agreements – Environment
- Environmental information – public participation and access to justice (Aarhus Convention)
- Public access to environmental information
- OSPAR Convention
- ITER: Euratom/Japan agreement on nuclear fusion
- Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
- Helsinki Convention on the protection of the Baltic Sea
- Helsinki Convention: preventing pollution in international watercourses and lakes
- Geneva Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
- International Dolphin Conservation Programme
- International Tropical Timber Agreement
- Minamata Convention on Mercury
- Licensing system for imports of timber to the EU
- EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
- Bonn Agreement — dealing with pollution of the North Sea by oil and other harmful substances, including air pollution caused by shipping
- Civil liability for oil pollution damage: Bunkers Convention
- Convention for the Conservation of Salmon in the North Atlantic Ocean
- Climate change – Paris Agreement, ratified by EU
- Convention for the Protection of the Rhine
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Convention on Biological Diversity — Cartagena protocol on biosafety
- Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention) and the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA Protocol)
- Convention on the conservation of migratory species of wild animals — Bonn Convention
- Convention on the Protection of the Alps
- Agreement between the EU and Switzerland on the greenhouse gas emissions trading system (ETS)
- Compliance with rules on access and benefit-sharing arising from the use of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge
- Barcelona Convention for the protection of the Mediterranean
- Conservation of Antarctic marine living resources
- Access to genetic resources and sharing of benefits arising from their utilisation (Nagoya Protocol)
- Access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters (Aarhus Convention)
- Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal
- Bern Convention
- The Energy Charter Treaty and Protocol
- Transboundary effects of industrial accidents
- United Nations Convention to combat desertification in countries seriously affected by drought
- Tackling threats posed by chemicals (Stockholm Convention)
- The Arctic region — new EU policy agenda
- Conventions protecting specific areas
- European Union Strategy for the Danube Region
- The Arctic region — new EU policy agenda
- Conservation of Antarctic marine living resources
- Conservation and management of high seas fishery resources in the South Pacific Ocean
- Barcelona Convention for the protection of the Mediterranean
- Convention on the Protection of the Alps
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
- Convention for the Protection of the Rhine
- Convention for the protection of the Danube
- Convention for the Conservation of Salmon in the North Atlantic Ocean
- Bonn Agreement — dealing with pollution of the North Sea by oil and other harmful substances, including air pollution caused by shipping
- EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
- Helsinki Convention: preventing pollution in international watercourses and lakes
- Helsinki Convention on the protection of the Baltic Sea
- European statistics
