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EU ENVIRONMENT POLICY

EU Environment Policy

  • International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
  •  European Green Deal
    • European Green Deal
    • The Just Transition Fund
    • The EU’s common fisheries policy
    • 2022 guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy
    • EU Technical Support Instrument (2021-2027)
    • European Climate Law
    • Learning for the green transition and sustainable development – Recommendation
    • Guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure
    • Programme for the environment and climate action (LIFE) (2021-2027)
    • Public sector loan facility under the just transition mechanism
    • Research Fund for Coal and Steel — Programme and guidelines
    • Enhanced cooperation between public employment services
    • EU environment action programme to 2030
    • EU biodiversity strategy for 2030
    • EU renewable energy financing mechanism
    • ‘Farm to fork’ strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system
    • European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (2021–2027)
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  •  Tackling climate change
      • EU environment action programme to 2030
      • European Climate Law
      • Programme for the environment and climate action (LIFE) (2021-2027)
    •  Innovation framework
      • SET-Plan for the development of low-carbon technologies
      • NER 300 programme — increasing low-carbon technologies
    •  Agriculture & land-use planning
      • Production and labelling of organic products (until 2021)
      • Accounting rules for greenhouse gases emitted or absorbed by forests and agriculture
      • Carbon dioxide capture and storage
      • EU rules on producing and labelling organic products (from 2022)
      • Landfill of waste
    •  Business: Environmental responsability
      • Assessing environmentally sustainable investments
      • The polluter-pays principle and environmental liability
      • Sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector
    •  Cleaner transport
      • Transport targets
        • Monitoring, reporting and verification of ships' CO2 emissions
        • Clean power for transport: a European alternative fuels strategy
        • EU strategy to reduce CO2 emissions from shipping
      • 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
        • European Year of Rail (2021)
        • The Marco Polo II programme
        • Promotion of inland waterway transport NAIADES
    •  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
        • Making critical entities more resilient
        • Sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions-saving criteria and low indirect land-use change-risk criteria
      • 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 renewable energy financing mechanism
        • Sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions-saving criteria and low indirect land-use change-risk criteria
        • Bioeconomy for Europe
        • Encouraging the use of biomass as an alternative source of 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
        • EU emissions trading system — auctioning regulation
        • The new EU accreditation and verification regulation
        • Union registry for emissions trading system allowances
        • Governance of the energy union
        • Greenhouse gas emission allowance trading system
      • 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
        • EU emissions trading system — auctioning regulation
        • Combatting deforestation
        • Flood-risk management in the EU
        • Making Europe resilient to climate change through adaptation
        • Mechanism for monitoring greenhouse gases
        •  Space
          • 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 Satellite Centre (SATCEN)
          • Galileo — access to the public regulated service
      • 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
      • Curbing the sound levels of motor vehicles
      • Assessment and management of environmental noise
      • Noise emission by equipment used outdoors
      • Motor vehicles with trailers: permissible sound level
    •  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
        • End-of-life vehicles
        • Re-use, recycling and recovery of vehicle parts and materials
        • Ship 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
      • European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)
      • The EU’s environment agency - environmental information and monitoring
      • EU scientific committees on consumer safety (SCCS) & on health, environmental and emerging risks (SCHEER)
      • EU programmes — agencies
    •  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
      • European Union law against environmental crime
      • Wildlife trafficking — EU action plan
      • Ship-source pollution and criminal penalties
    •  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
      • European environmental economic accounts
      • Waste statistics
      • Pesticide statistics
      • Statistics on the inputs and outputs of agricultural activities
Sources: European Union, http://www.europa.eu/, 1995-2025, 

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