EU leaders must honour their global biodiversity commitments and stop undermining nature protection at home, WWF warns ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP17), taking place in Yerevan, Armenia, from 19 to 30 October.
EU ministers have approved a Regulation on cross-border enforcement of the Directive on unfair trading practices (UTP Directive).
Today’s long-awaited Industrial Accelerator Act presented by the European Commission shows a first step to support the EU’s industrial transformation.
“Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are key actors in the European industrial supply chains. The proposal for an Industrial Accelerator Act should now bring positive trickle down effects from specific measures for strategic sectors to the wider economy”, underlined SMEunited Secretary General Véronique Willems in a first reaction to today’s proposal by the European Commission.
As Argentina and Uruguay ratify the controversial EU-Mercosur trade deal, in an open letter, signed by over 170 civil society groups, farmers groups, environmental organisations, including Friends of the Earth…
EuroCommerce, the European association of retailers and wholesalers, urges the Commission to act to protect the EU Single Market against the extra-territorial application of national law in the context of European retail alliances.
Fully excluding new fossil fuel projects from the revised Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is critical to achieving the EU’s climate commitments, safeguarding the integrity of the framework, and strengthening investor confidence, warn 133 organisations and experts in a new multi-stakeholder letter.
