EU Environment Policy
ENTER
European Green Deal
- ‘Farm to fork’ strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system
- Programme for the environment and climate action (LIFE) (2021-2027)
- Guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure
- Learning for the green transition and sustainable development – Recommendation
- Research Fund for Coal and Steel — Programme and guidelines
- Public sector loan facility under the just transition mechanism
- European Green Deal
- European green bond standard
- European Climate Law
- EU Technical Support Instrument (2021-2027)
- European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (2021–2027)
- Common rules promoting the repair of goods and amending related EU legislation
- EU biodiversity strategy for 2030
- Enhanced cooperation between public employment services
- EU renewable energy financing mechanism
- EU Net-Zero Industry Act
- EU environment action programme to 2030
- Ecodesign requirements for sustainable products
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
- 2022 guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy
- Nature restoration
- The EU’s common fisheries policy
- The Just Transition Fund
- Tackling climate change
- EU environment action programme to 2030
- Programme for the environment and climate action (LIFE) (2021-2027)
- European Climate Law
- EU climate change policy
- Moving towards a low-carbon economy in 2050
- EU policy framework for climate and energy (2020 to 2030)
- Long-term climate policy
- Reducing greenhouse gases
- Fighting deforestation and forest degradation
- Governance of the energy union
- Renewable and low-carbon fuels in maritime transport
- Reducing greenhouse gases by 2020: the effort sharing decision
- Union registry for emissions trading system allowances
- Combating illegal logging
- Climate action – binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions (2021–2030)
- Emissions Trading System — Innovation Fund rules
- Establishing a Union certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products
- EU emissions trading system
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
- 2030 climate and energy framework – greenhouse gas emissions, land use change and forestry
- Social Climate Fund
- Sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions-saving criteria and low indirect land-use change-risk criteria
- The new EU accreditation and verification regulation
- Monitoring & adapting to climate change
- Combatting deforestation
- Flood-risk management in the EU
- Space
- EU Satellite Centre (SATCEN)
- Galileo — access to the public regulated service
- Horizon Europe — the framework programme for research and innovation, laying down its rules for participation and dissemination
- EU space programme (2021–2027) – European Union Agency for the Space Programme
- EU secure connectivity programme (2023–2027)
- International agreements
- Tackling global climate change after 2020 (Paris Protocol)
- Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
- United Nations (UN) climate change negotiations — an overview
- Climate change – Paris Agreement, ratified by EU
- Conservation of African-Eurasian migratory waterbirds
- 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
- The EU and the 2015 International Climate Change Agreement
- The Road from Paris: assessing the implications of the Paris Agreement on fighting climate change
- UN climate negotiations: Kyoto Protocol — second commitment period
- UN climate negotiations: Kyoto Protocol — first commitment period
- Clean, efficient energy
- The future of carbon capture and storage in Europe
- Reducing methane emissions in the energy sector
- Climate action – binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions (2021–2030)
- Clean industrial deal State aid framework
- Ecodesign requirements – external power supplies (as from 2028)
- Ecodesign requirements – external power supplies
- Encouraging the use of biomass as an alternative source of energy
- Ecodesign requirements — welding equipment
- Ecodesign requirements — power transformers
- Air pollution from medium combustion plants
- 2030 climate and energy framework – greenhouse gas emissions, land use change and forestry
- Moving toward competitive sustainable and secure energy for Europe
- Secure & sustainable energy
- Energy efficiency
- The Energy Charter Treaty and Protocol
- Governance of the energy union
- Renewable and low-carbon fuels in maritime transport
- Ecodesign requirements – external power supplies (as from 2028)
- Ecodesign requirements – external power supplies
- Ecodesign requirements — electric motors and variable speed drives
- Ecodesign for energy-related products
- Ecodesign and energy labelling requirements — washing machines and household washer-dryers
- Ecodesign and energy labelling requirements – household tumble 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
- Energy Poverty and Vulnerable Consumers Coordination Group
- Energy performance of buildings (until 2026)
- Energy performance of buildings
- Energy efficiency: helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security
- Energy efficiency (from 2025)
- Energy consumption – framework for labelling rules
- Efficient and safe hot-water boilers
- Ecodesign requirements — welding equipment
- Ecodesign requirements – smartphones, mobile phones other than smartphones, cordless phones and slate tablets
- Ecodesign requirements — servers and data storage products
- Ecodesign requirements — power transformers
- Ecodesign requirements – off mode, standby mode and networked standby energy consumption of electrical and electronic household and office equipment
- Ecodesign requirements for sustainable products
- Renewable energy
- Cleaner transport
- Shipments of waste
- Transport targets
- Road & air transport
- Rail, maritime & waterway transport
- Business: Environmental responsability
- The polluter-pays principle and environmental liability
- EU Net-Zero Industry Act
- Establishing a Union certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products
- Assessing environmentally sustainable investments
- Sustainability rules for batteries and waste batteries
- Sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector
- Agriculture & land-use planning
- 2030 climate and energy framework – greenhouse gas emissions, land use change and forestry
- Production and labelling of organic products (until 2021)
- Landfill of waste
- EU rules on producing and labelling organic products (from 2022)
- Carbon dioxide capture and storage
- Accounting rules for greenhouse gases emitted or absorbed by forests and agriculture
- Innovation framework
- Air
- Petrol vapour recovery at filling stations for cleaner air
- Geneva Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
- Vehicle emissions and battery durability (Euro 7): technical requirements and certification rules
- Fluorinated greenhouse gases
- Cleaner air for Europe
- Cleaner air for Europe
- EU rules on national emissions of certain atmospheric pollutants
- Emissions of volatile organic compounds in paints, varnishes and vehicle refinishing products
- Carbon dioxide capture and storage
- Air pollution from medium combustion plants
- Substances depleting the ozone layer
- Uniform rules concerning the approval of retrofit emission control devices (REC)
- Chemicals
- Tackling threats posed by chemicals (Stockholm Convention)
- Minamata Convention on Mercury
- Hazardous chemicals – rules on export and import
- International trade in hazardous chemicals (Rotterdam Convention)
- Major accidents involving dangerous chemicals
- European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) – how the European Union regulates chemicals
- Common data platform on chemicals
- Sustainability rules for batteries and waste batteries
- Safer detergents for European consumers
- Nature & biodiversity
- Fighting deforestation and forest degradation
- Protecting Europe’s biodiversity (Natura 2000)
- Protecting biodiversity from invasive alien species
- Programme for the environment and climate action (LIFE) (2021-2027)
- Protection of laboratory animals
- Revised EU action plan against wildlife trafficking
- Wildlife trafficking — EU action plan
- Vulnerable marine ecosystems: protection from bottom fishing on the high seas
- Voluntary partnership agreements on forest law enforcement, governance and trade
- 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
- Conservation of wild birds
- Conservation of fisheries resources and protection of marine ecosystems
- Conservation of certain stocks of migratory fish
- EU biodiversity strategy for 2030
- Ensuring trade in wild fauna and flora does not threaten their survival
- Alien and locally absent species
- Bern Convention
- OSPAR Convention
- Nature restoration
- Multiannual recovery plan for Mediterranean swordfish
- Trade in seal products
- The role of zoos in the conservation of biodiversity
- Noise
- Soil & forests
- Fighting deforestation and forest degradation
- Landfill of waste
- International Tropical Timber Agreement
- Genetically modified food & feed
- Licensing system for imports of timber to the EU
- Regulating GM crops: EU countries’ rights
- 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
- 2030 climate and energy framework – greenhouse gas emissions, land use change and forestry
- Nature restoration
- Soil Monitoring Law
- Waste
- Port facilities for waste from ships, including cargo residues
- Protecting health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants
- Landfill of waste
- Management of waste from extractive industries
- Making the most of waste electrical and electronic equipment
- Radioactive waste & spent fuel - safety rules
- Radioactive waste shipments - supervision and control
- Restriction on the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment
- Removal and disposal of disused offshore oil and gas installations
- Reducing the consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags in the EU
- EU waste management law
- Waste statistics
- Use and storage of and trade in mercury
- Urban wastewater treatment (from 2027)
- Urban waste water treatment
- Disposal of spent batteries
- Disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs)
- Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal
- Sustainability rules for batteries and waste batteries
- Single-use plastics – fighting the impact on the environment
- Shipments of waste
- Shipments of radioactive substances
- Safe waste shipments within the EU and with non-EU countries
- Packaging and packaging waste (from 2026)
- Packaging and packaging waste
- Water
- Fighting water pollution from agricultural nitrates
- Minimum requirements for water reuse
- Good-quality water in Europe (EU water directive)
- Radioactive substances in water intended for human consumption: protection of public health
- Protection of groundwater against pollution
- EU water resources protection plan
- Using alumina to remove fluoride from mineral waters
- Urban wastewater treatment (from 2027)
- Urban waste water treatment
- Flood-risk management in the EU
- Drinking water — essential quality standards
- Environmental quality standards applicable to surface water
- Addressing water scarcity and droughts in the EU
- Bathing water quality
- Single-use plastics – fighting the impact on the environment
- Coastal & marine environment
- Safer and less polluting equipment on EU ships
- Protecting the sea and the food chain from the effects of organotin compounds
- Helsinki Convention on the protection of the Baltic Sea
- 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
- EU maritime information and exchange system
- Bonn Agreement — dealing with pollution of the North Sea by oil and other harmful substances, including air pollution caused by shipping
- Barcelona Convention for the protection of the Mediterranean
- OSPAR Convention
- Nature restoration
- Single-use plastics – fighting the impact on the environment
- Strategy for the marine environment
- Safety of offshore oil and gas operations
- Industry & pollution
- Ship recycling
- Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
- Industrial and livestock-rearing emissions
- Management of waste from extractive industries
- Reporting of environmental data from industrial installations and establishment of the Industrial Emissions Portal
- Reducing microplastic pollution from plastic pellets
- Recovery of petrol vapours during storage
- European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)
- Fluorinated greenhouse gases
- EU Net-Zero Industry Act
- Establishing a Union certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
- Substances depleting the ozone layer
- Transboundary effects of industrial accidents
- Ship-source pollution and criminal penalties
- Pollution from vehicles
- Emission limits and type-approval rules for non-road mobile machinery
- Information on the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of new cars
- Quality of petrol and diesel fuels: sulphur and lead
- Reduction in CO2 emissions of new passenger cars and of new light commercial vehicles
- Reducing pollution from light motor vehicles
- Vehicle emissions and battery durability (Euro 7): technical requirements and certification rules
- Fuels — reducing sulphur content
- CO2 emissions and fuel consumption of heavy-duty vehicles
- CO2 emission performance standards for new heavy-duty vehicles
- 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
- The polluter-pays principle and environmental liability
- Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
- Integration of environmental aspects into European standardisation
- Reporting of environmental data from industrial installations and establishment of the Industrial Emissions Portal
- Reliable benchmarking of environmental performance
- Vehicle emissions and battery durability (Euro 7): technical requirements and certification rules
- Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention) and the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA Protocol)
- Establishing a Union certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products
- Ecodesign requirements for sustainable products
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
- Better environmental performance: Community 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)
- Shipments of waste
- The EU’s infrastructure for spatial information (Inspire)
- The precautionary principle
- Environmental crime
- Agreements – Environment
- Tackling threats posed by chemicals (Stockholm Convention)
- The Arctic region — new EU policy agenda
- The Energy Charter Treaty and Protocol
- Transboundary effects of industrial accidents
- OSPAR Convention
- Civil liability for oil pollution damage: Bunkers Convention
- Agreement between the EU and Switzerland on the greenhouse gas emissions trading system (ETS)
- Barcelona Convention for the protection of the Mediterranean
- Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal
- Bern Convention
- 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)
- Bonn Agreement — dealing with pollution of the North Sea by oil and other harmful substances, including air pollution caused by shipping
- Environmental information – public participation and access to justice (Aarhus Convention)
- Conservation of Antarctic marine living resources
- Climate change – Paris Agreement, ratified by EU
- Convention for the Conservation of Salmon in the North Atlantic Ocean
- 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
- Compliance with rules on access and benefit-sharing arising from the use of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge
- United Nations Convention to combat desertification in countries seriously affected by drought
- EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
- Public access to environmental information
- Licensing system for imports of timber to the EU
- Geneva Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
- International Dolphin Conservation Programme
- International Tropical Timber Agreement
- ITER: Euratom/Japan agreement on nuclear fusion
- Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
- Minamata Convention on Mercury
- Helsinki Convention on the protection of the Baltic Sea
- Helsinki Convention: preventing pollution in international watercourses and lakes
- European statistics
- Archived summaries
- Financial framework for the urban environment
- Protecting whales, dolphins and porpoises against incidental catch
- Promoting sustainable development in the non-energy extractive industry
- Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources
- Programme LIFE+
- Programme for the promotion of short sea shipping
- Programme for the environment and climate action (LIFE) (2014-20)
- Kyoto Protocol on climate change
- Industry and environment
- Mechanism for monitoring greenhouse gases
- Mechanism for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions
- Maritime safety: prevention of pollution from ships
- Greenhouse gases: reducing emissions by 20 % or more by 2020
- Greenhouse gas emissions - monitoring & reporting mechanism
- Greenhouse gas emission allowance trading and aviation
- “Green” vehicles: a European strategy
- Green public procurement
- Maritime safety: compensation fund for oil pollution damage
- Implementing the Kyoto Protocol
- Green Paper on energy efficiency
- Maritime Policy Green Paper
- Marine pollution from ships and gas and oil installations
- Marine knowledge 2020
- Implementation of Community environmental law in 2004
- Malta
- Internalisation of external transport costs
- Making Europe resilient to climate change through adaptation
- Global partnership for sustainable development
- Global climate change alliance
- Living well, within the limits of our planet: the 7th EAP (2014-20)
- Lithuania
- Integration of the environment into economic policy
- Iceland – Environment
- Integrating the environment into aerial transport
- Integrating sustainable development into Community cooperation policy
- Integrated pollution prevention and control (until 2013)
- Hungary
- Monitoring and reporting the CO2 emissions of heavy-duty vehicles
- Launching the European Climate Change Programme (ECCP)
- Latvia
- Response to natural or man-made disasters
- Quality of shellfish waters
- Renewable Energy Road Map
- Protocol on Heavy Metals
- Romania
- Protection of the aquatic environment against discharges of dangerous substances (until 2013)
- Reduction of pollution caused by waste from the titanium dioxide industry
- Reduction of pollution caused by waste from the titanium dioxide industry
- Reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from light commercial vehicles
- Reduction in fluorinated greenhouse gases
- Reduction in CO2 emissions of new passenger cars
- Reducing the emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
- Reducing human-made greenhouse gases (fluorinated gases)
- Reducing CO2 emissions from very heavy vehicles
- Protection of certain seal species
- EU strategy for biofuels
- European Earth monitoring programme (GMES)
- Europe-Asia cooperation strategy
- European Union forest action plan
- European satellite monitoring programme (Copernicus): climate aspects
- White paper: European transport policy for 2010
- White Paper: A strategy for revitalising the Community's railways
- Whaling
- Water suitable for fish-breeding
- Waste incineration
- Waste electrical and electronic equipment
- Freight transport logistics in Europe
- Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) (2007-2013)
- Community strategy concerning mercury
- Disposal of titanium dioxide industrial waste
- Danube - Black Sea region
- Community guidelines on State aid for environmental protection
- Disaster risk reduction in developing countries
- Cyprus
- Development and integrated management of coastal zones
- Destructive fishing practices in the high seas and the protection of ecosystems
- Croatia – Environment
- Demonstration of the capture and storage of CO2
- Combating invasive species
- Controlled management of hazardous waste (until the end of 2010)
- Climate change in the context of development cooperation
- Clean Sky
- Conservation and management of sharks
- Conservation and exploitation of marine resources
- Energy efficiency for the 2020 goal
- EU registry of emissions trading system allowances (2013–2020)
- Estonia
- Environmental taxes and charges
- Environmental integration in external relations
- Environmental inspections: minimum criteria
- Environmental indicators
- Environmental agreements
- Environment strategy for the Mediterranean
- Environment Policy Review - 2008
- Environment and sustainable management of natural resources, including energy
- Environment and health strategy
- EU emissions trading system — auctioning regulation
- EU scientific committees on consumer safety (SCCS) & on health, environmental and emerging risks (SCHEER)
- EU-Russia environmental cooperation
- Addressing wildlife trafficking - EU action
- An Energy Policy for Europe
- Adapting to Climate Change
- Bulgaria
- Building a sustainable future for aquaculture
- Action plan in favour of environmental technologies
- Action Plan for Energy Efficiency (2007-12)
- Action Plan for biodiversity
- Action plan for an integrated maritime policy
- Action against noise: Green Paper
- Black Sea Synergy
- Access to justice in environmental matters
- Biodiversity strategy for 2020
- Biodiversity Action Plan for the Conservation of Natural Resources
- Biodiversity Action Plan for Fisheries
- Biodiversity Action Plan for Economic and Development Co-operation
- Biodiversity Action Plan for Agriculture
- Bathing water quality (until 2014)
- Ban on trade in cat and dog fur
- Aviation and climate change
- A strategy for the sustainable development of European aquaculture
- A strategy for integrating the environment into EU policies
- A strategy for better ship dismantling practices
- A programme for clean and competitive SMEs
- Agenda for a sustainable and competitive European tourism
- Civil Protection Mechanism
- 2020 climate and energy package
- 2007 Environment Policy Review
- Other substances: protection of groundwater
- New (novel) foods and food ingredients
- Non-road mobile machinery: gaseous pollutants
- Noise management at EU airports
- National emission limits for certain air pollutants
- Multilateral Environment for Europe process
- Motor vehicles: use of biofuels
- Sustainable power generation from fossil fuels
- Sustainable Consumption, Production and Industry Action Plan
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – Environment
- Surveillance and monitoring of titanium dioxide waste
- Slovenia
- Turkey – Environment
- Slovakia
- Substances depleting the ozone layer
- Sixth Environment Action Programme
- Situation in 1999 and prospects for radioactive waste management
- Transport and the environment
- Strengthening the European disaster response capacity
- Single European Sky II
- Strategy to reduce atmospheric emissions from seagoing ships
- Strategy to improve maritime governance in the Mediterranean
- Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources
- Strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste
- Strategy on climate change: foundations of the strategy
- Strategy on climate change for 2020 and beyond
- Strategy for sustainable development
- Seventh Framework Programme (2007 to 2013)
- The EU forestry strategy
- The EU biodiversity strategy: a current review of progress
- Towards a strategy for soil protection
- Towards a Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS)
- Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan)
- Towards a European Strategic Energy Technology Plan
- Towards a Community programme for flood risk management
- The Czech Republic
- Scientific Committees for consumer safety, public health and the environment
- Thematic strategy on the urban environment
- Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution
- Thematic strategy for soil protection
- The World Summit on Sustainable Development one year on
- The operational priorities of the European Investment Bank
- The offshore protocol helps protect the Mediterranean Sea from pollution
- The management of bio-waste in the European Union
- The Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund
- Financing of civil protection measures (2007-2013)
- Export and storage of mercury
- Passenger car related taxes
- Poland
- Pollutant gases of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors
- Pollutants from large combustion plants
- Polluting emissions from large combustion plants
- Port facilities for ship-generated waste and cargo residues
- Pan-European cooperation after enlargement
- Preventive alert against emergencies
- Pricing and long-term management of water
