IEU Environment Monitoring 18 February 2021

Our IEU Monitoring headlines today*: 

SPECIAL SECTION: COVID-19: 

• EU Health Security Committee agrees on a common list of COVID-19 rapid antigen tests +++ 
• Article - Coronavirus: a timeline of EU action in 2021 +++ 
• ECDC: Behavioural Insights research to support the response to COVID-19: a survey of implementation in the EU/EEA +++ 
• ECDC: Using face masks in the community: first update - Effectiveness in reducing transmission of COVID-19 +++ 
• ECDC: Detection and characterisation capability and capacity for SARS-CoV-2 variants within the EU/EEA +++ 
• ECDC Situation updates on COVID-19 +++ 

AIR QUALITY

• EU Commission calls on BELGIUM, CZECHIA and POLAND to protect their populations against air pollution
• EU Commission refers SLOVAKIA to the Court of Justice over poor air quality
• Clean Air Dialogue between the EU Commission and the Netherlands to promote cleaner air

INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS

• Air Quality: EU Commission calls on ROMANIA to improve its rules on industrial emissions

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

• Environmental impact assessment: EU Commission asks FRANCE to improve its national rules
• EU Commission calls on CYPRUS to enhance national rules on environmental impact of public and private projects

NATURE PROTECTION

• EU Commission refers GERMANY to the Court of Justice over failure to properly implement the Habitats Directive
• BMU: Mitteilung BMU zur Klage der EU-Kommission
• Die Grünen/EFA: Natura 2000: EU-Kommission verklagt Deutschland vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof
• EU Commission is calling on POLAND to implement the Court of Justice ruling on nature protection in the Białowieża Forest
• EU Commission calls on LITHUANIA to ensure the respect of EU nature protection laws
• EU Commission calls on SPAIN to meet its obligation to protect the Delta del Llobregat

WASTEWATER

• Urban Waste Water: Commission refers SLOVENIA to the Court of Justice over waste water treatment
• EU Commission: Answer to a written question - Recast of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive - E-006738/2020(ASW)

NOISE

• EU Commission refers POLAND to the Court of Justice over non-compliance with the Noise Directive

RECYCLING

• Webinar - Multiple Loop Recycling: what are the challenges?

PESTICIDES

• Answer to a written question - Authorisation to use neonicotinoids that are harmful to bees in Poland: concerns the answers to question E-005108/2020(ASW) and E-005108/2020 - E-006562/2020(ASW)

EU COUNCIL REGISTER

• CM 1795 2021 INIT Informal videoconference of the members of the Working Party on International Environment Issues (UNECE Aarhus) (morning only)

EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER

• Meeting of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI)
• Answer to a written question - Regarding the answer to question E-005163/2020 – Guidelines for THC in the EU and a new THC risk assessment - E-006729/2020(ASW)
• Text adopted - Quality of water intended for human consumption ***II - P9_TA(2020)0344 - Tuesday, 15 December 2020 - Brussels - Final edition
• Text adopted - Implementation of the EU water legislation - P9_TA(2020)0377 - Thursday, 17 December 2020 - Brussels - Final edition
• Text adopted - Genetically modified maize MON 87427 × MON 89034 × MIR162 × MON 87411 and genetically modified maize combining two or three of the single events MON 87427, MON 89034, MIR162 and MON 87411 - P9_TA(2020)0366 - Thursday, 17 December 2020 - Brussels - Final edition
• Text adopted - Genetically modified soybean MON 87751 × MON 87701 × MON 87708 × MON 89788 - P9_TA(2020)0365 - Thursday, 17 December 2020 - Brussels - Final edition
• Text adopted - Genetically modified maize MIR604 (SYN-IR6Ø4-5) - P9_TA(2020)0367 - Thursday, 17 December 2020 - Brussels - Final edition
• Text adopted - Genetically modified maize MIR604 (SYN-IR6Ø4-5) - P9_TA(2020)0367 - Thursday, 17 December 2020 - Brussels - Final edition

ECHA BRIEFS

• Public Consultations-1-Propanone, 2-hydroxy-2-methyl-, 1-(4-C10-13-alkylphenyl) derivs.
• Public Consultations-Disodium 4-[4-[[5-[(2-bromo-1-oxoallyl)amino]-2-sulphonatophenyl]azo]-4,5-dihydro-3-methyl-5-oxo-1H-pyrazol-1-yl]-2,5-dichlorobenzenesulphonate
• Public Consultations-Disodium 6-amino-5-[[4-[(2-bromo-1-oxoallyl)amino]-2-sulphonatophenyl]azo]-4-hydroxynaphthalene-2-sulphonate
• Public Consultations-Disodium 6-amino-5-[[4-[(2-bromo-1-oxoallyl)amino]-2-[(4-methyl-3-sulphonatophenyl)sulphonyl]phenyl]azo]naphthalene-2-sulphonate
• Public Consultations-m-xylene
• Public Consultations-Hexyl salicylate
• Public Consultations-Fatty acids, C18-unsatd., dimers, oligomeric reaction products with 1-chloro-2,3-epoxypropane
• Public Consultations-4-hydroxybenzophenone
• Public Consultations-Reaction product of 2,4-Dinitrotoluene and 2,6-Dinitrotoluene and hydrogen
• Public Consultations-1-[(2-tert-butylcyclohexyl)oxy]butan-2-ol
• Public Consultations-tert-butyl 3,5,5-trimethylperoxyhexanoate
• Public Consultations-6-tert-butyl-2,4-xylenol
• Public Consultations-Dimethyl(propyl)amine
• Public Consultations-Reaction mass of propylidynetrimethanol and 2-ethylpropane-1,3-diol and 5-ethyl-1,3-dioxane-5-methanol
• Public Consultations-p-xylene
• Public Consultations-Adipic acid
• Public Consultations-3,3'-oxybis(ethyleneoxy)bis(propylamine)
• Public Consultations-2-Propenoic acid, 1,1'-[(1-methyl-1,2-ethanediyl)bis[oxy(methyl-2,1-ethanediyl)]] ester, reaction products with diethylamine

EFSA BRIEFS

• 3rd meeting of the EFSA Technical group on Notification of Studies Database
• Setting of import tolerance for azoxystrobin in sugar beet roots
• SARS-CoV-2 in mink: recommendations to improve monitoring

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