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