Simon Pickstone

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the European Commission did not give due regard to scientific advice when re-approving cypermethrin, in a major win for environmental campaigners.

Compromise amendments hammered out by the European Parliament’s mainstream groups call for the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to provide more scientific support to lawmakers and to join a taskforce investigating chemicals’ impact on human health.

Tweaks to the EU’s main chemicals law will take place through secondary legislation, with a wholesale revision off the table for now, environment commissioner Jessika Roswall has confirmed.

A wholesale revision of the EU’s main chemicals law is off the table for now, according to EU environment commissioner Jessika Roswall, with commentators stating this may give the UK government time to “catch up”.

Leather and retreaded tyres will be removed from the scope of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), but the primary legal text will remain unchanged, the European Commission has confirmed.

Draft standards for corporate sustainability reporting that would significantly cut the amount of information companies will have to provide have been put out for consultation.

Member states have discussed a draft compromise on changes to the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) that would reintroduce a requirement for operators to keep an inventory of hazardous substances.

After years of work, the European Commission has confirmed that a full overhaul of the REACH Regulation is now off the table. But officials are considering new secondary legislation that could still lead to significant changes.

Lobbying over the future of the EU’s carbon market has reached fever pitch ahead of a revision proposal due on 17 July. Here’s what is at stake.

The European Parliament’s decision to block new rules stripping soybean-based biofuels of their renewable status has come under criticism from Malaysia’s palm oil industry, which has accused the EU of double standards.