The European Commission has exempted recent ‘omnibus’ proposals from the standard requirement for independent assessments, stating that its internal scrutiny body is no longer empowered to issue opini...

The European Commission’s latest ‘omnibus’ package includes a proposal to drop obligations for white goods and other energy-consuming products sold in the EU to come with the bloc’s ubiquitous printed...

A decision to allow automated submissions of due diligence statements meant to simplify how businesses comply with the EU’s anti-deforestation law caused a massive increase in system load estimates an...

EU officials have updated a rushed political agreement on the EU’s anti-deforestation law to fix flaws that could have allowed some of the world’s largest corporations to enjoy exemptions meant for sm...

Climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra has said that the EU is on course to meet its target to cut emissions by at least 55% by 2030, despite new data indicating it will narrowly miss that goal even in a...

Officials are making alternative preparations to implement the EU’s anti-deforestation rules by the end of the year as originally foreseen, despite asserting that a legislative proposal delaying the r...

Industry groups piled pressure on the European Commission to pull its anti-greenwashing proposal while trilogue talks were underway, documents obtained by ENDS Europe reveal.

Officials are hoping to simplify Euro 7 emission standard tests as part of an upcoming automotive ‘omnibus’ package, alongside plans for a new vehicle category to “make a business case” for small elec...

The EU executive has set out the preliminary scope for its upcoming environmental simplifications package, with potentially sweeping reforms that includes the scrapping of an EU database on hazardous ...

The former environment commissioner, who oversaw the creation of the EU’s flagship chemicals legislation, talks to ENDS Europe about what is at stake in the upcoming revision.

Several MEPs in the European Parliament’s environment committee have formally objected to secondary legislation setting individual country risk ratings under the EU’s anti-deforestation law.

Recently appointed European Ombudsman Teresa Anjinho talks to ENDS about the role of the institution to safeguard democratic norms and “procedural fairness” in what she perceives as a rapidly changing...

The European Commission is drawing up a new ‘omnibus’ package dedicated to reducing the administrative burden of EU green laws, with initial ambitions to target waste, product and industrial emissions...

The EU’s environment chief talks to ENDS Europe about competitiveness, PFAS and her broader green ambitions amid a “challenging” geopolitical and security context.

The youth climate activist and Green MEP talks to ENDS Europe about becoming a decision maker and expectations of a looming “defence fight” to halt EU backtracking on green ambitions.

French farmer Jean Mathieu Thevenot, representative of the global collective Via Campesina, on the EU’s recent trade agreement with Mercosur and broader concerns about the bloc’s competitiveness craze...

The EU executive’s work programme for this year will be thin on sustainability initiatives, according to a leaked recent draft, as competitiveness and simplification take centre stage.

MEPs and member states have reached a partial agreement on revising the Waste Framework Directive, with the Polish presidency hopeful a final deal can be struck this month.

The EU executive is preparing to revise an agreement between the institutions as part of its deregulation drive, to ensure that they gauge the regulatory burden of amendments, while slamming co-legisl...

The EU executive is planning to come forward with sweeping simplifications for mid-cap companies alongside dedicated support plans for key industries including metals and chemicals, according to a dra...

European Environment Agency director Leena Ylä-Mononen talks to ENDS Europe about why the EU must double down on its climate and environment agenda amid an increasingly challenging political backdrop.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen stands ready to fly to a Mercosur summit later this week to sign off on a trade deal with the bloc, amid last-minute efforts to get an agreement over...

The EU and Canada have watered down the safeguards for countries enacting climate and environment legislation, in an agreement on supplemental interpretative provisions to the investment protection ch...

The eminent lawmaker and Greens negotiator on the Nature Restoration Law talks to ENDS Europe about the need for realpolitik, amid a conservative ‘kill list’ for key environmental files, as the le...