EUREAU News
Edition: 20130218
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EUREAU Updates
Source: ENDS Europe - 05/02/2013 The European Commission’s REACH review shows that the regulation is working but the jury is “still out” on whether it is having a positive impact on competitiveness and innovation in the chemicals industry, says trade association Cefic.Tuesday’s review concludes that “REACH fulfils its objective with regard to... [more]
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EUREAU Updates
Source: ENDS Europe - 06/02/2013Only fourteen member states have met a 7 January deadline for notifying measures transposing the 2010 Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) into their national laws, according to information supplied by the European Commission.Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Ireland, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the... [more]
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Edition: 20130204
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EUREAU Updates
Source: ENDS Europe - 24/01/2013The EU executive should wrap up its review of the strategy on endocrine disruptive chemicals (EDCs) and either amend exiting law or propose new rules by June 2015 to reduce human exposure to these chemicals, a group of MEPs has said.The call was made by members of the European Parliament’s environment committee on... [more]
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EUREAU Updates
Source: ENDS Europe - 23/01/2013The European Parliament’s agriculture committee has approved a series of amendments the proposed Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) reform that would ease requirements for obtaining ‘green’ subsidies from 2015.On Wednesday morning, MEPs in the committee agreed that farmers working under agri-environment agreements... [more]
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Edition: 20130121
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Report
ENDS Europe - 09/01/2013 Ireland has named securing agreement with MEPs on Europe’s seventh environmental action plan (7EAP) as the top environmental priority of its EU six-month presidency term. The Irish presidency also aims to ask for council conclusions on a new EU climate adaptation strategy, which the European Commission is likely... [more]
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ENDS Europe - 18/01/2013France has announced new measures in a bid to comply with the 1991 nitrate directive. In February last year, the European Commission took the member state to the EU court over its failure to tackle farm pollution.Based on an analysis of water quality data, the commission said there were a number of areas in France that had... [more]
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Edition: 20121210
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EUREAU Updates
ENDS Europe - 29/11/12 The parliament’s environment committee has backed the inclusion of three drugs in a list of chemicals regulated under water legislation but it rejected the establishment of environmental quality standards (EQSs) for each one of them.This is a weakening compared with the European Commission’s initial proposal, which... [more]
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Edition: 20121126
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EUREAU Updates
By Dave Keating(This article was published by European Voice, on November 15, 2012)Twelve years on, the water framework directive is facing implementation problems.When the water framework directive was adopted in 2000, it was one of the most ambitious pieces of environmental legislation yet approved by the EU. With the stroke of a pen, member... [more]
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EUREAU Updates
(This article was published by European Voice, on November 15, 2012)Water needs to be given a value to discourage waste, but campaigners fear privatisation could harm vulnerable groups.Opponents of the European Union's austerity regime in Greece have accused the policy of depriving people of medicines, shelter and a social safety net. But in... [more]
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Edition: 20121015
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EUREAU Updates
Spain has failed to adopt management plans for each of its river basins by 22 December 2009 as required under the water framework directive, Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on Thursday.The ruling follows a complaint filed by the European Commission in 2011. Only one of its 25 plans has been published at the time. In June, the... [more]
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05-10-12 // Spain has failed to adopt management plans for each of its river basins by 22 December 2009 as required under the water framework directive, Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on Thursday.The ruling follows a complaint filed by the European Commission in 2011. Only one of its 25 plans has been published at the time. In... [more]
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Edition: 20120614
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EUREAU Updates
Dear EUREAU Members,We are addressing you asking for your immediate action regarding the ongoing debates at the European Parliament and the Council on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform. The reasons to address you are the following:As an outcome from the EUREAU’s last Task Force on Agriculture meeting held in Bonn on 9-10 May 2012,... [more]
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EUREAU Updates
Dear all,Some information from the European Council conclusions from 11/06/2012 on 7th EAP that are focused on three areas:The first is the long-term vision that should guide EU environment policy to 2050, reflecting the EU’s resource efficiency, biodiversity and climate change objectives and the aspiration to move to a toxin-free, clean and... [more]
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EUREAU Updates
Dear all,Please find here some updated information on the work EUREAU and EU123 commissions are doing related to Priority Substance.The EC legislative proposal for the new 15 priority substances to be added to the existing list (of 33 substances listed in EQS and WFD directives) has been published on 31.01.2012 and follows an Ordinary legislative... [more]
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EUREAU Updates
Dear all,Please find the latest development related to Water Blueprint and EUREAU's actions:EUREAU TF on Water Blueprint & WFD together with a number of national associations participate in the process of replying to the consultation on 'EU water policy options'. Response to the questionaire can be found here.EUREAU's position was widely... [more]
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EUREAU Updates
Chemicals & emerging pollutants:Biocidal products: Council on 10/05/2012 adopted regulation concerning the pacing on the market and use of Biocidal products (PE-CONS 3/12), which includes insecticides, disinfectants and repellents, but not medicines and agricultural pesticides. The regulation shall apply from 01.09.2013 (Press release 9757/12... [more]
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EUREAU Updates
EUREAU is the European Federation of national associations of water & wastewater services and represent the water & wastewater operators at EU level.Through 70.000 utilities – reflecting the full diversity of the European water and sanitation services and representing public, private and mixed operators – our Members collectively provide... [more]
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Events
Water, the blue resource that sometimes we forget to take care of was at the core of the 2012 European Green Week. From 22 to 25 May, the Water sector lived a challenging week. In the frame of the Green Week, the main environmental event organised by the European Commission, EUREAU had the opportunity to present its views and opinions on:1.7... [more]
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Events
18 June 2012: Regional Office of Silesia in Brussels: Towards energy positive water sector: challenges and opportunities for innovation in the European Regions - Brussels, Belgium;20 June 2012: DG SANCO meeting on pesticides - Brussels, Belgium;21-24 June 2012: Rio +20 Conference - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;25-27 June 2012: IWA Ecotechnologies... [more]
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Networking
Dear all,The meetings of the three commission were taking place at the end of May. All the updated documentation is already avaible in the Extranet.Congratulations to all for the hard work on making those meetings to be so fruitful. [more]
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