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New EU measures on waste shipment enter into force

Most provisions of the EU’s revised Waste Shipment Regulation entered into force on 21 May, including an electronic platform to digitally process waste shipments and additional measures to support recycling in the EU and better scrutiny on export of plastic waste.

EU tax havens blacklist set for end 2017

Photo EU Council (BRUSSELS) – EU finance ministers agreed Tuesday on the criteria and process for establishing an EU list of tax havens, or non-cooperative jurisdictions…

EU on course to reach 2020 target: EEA report

Photo By Patrick Kelley (COPENHAGEN) – Emissions across the European Union in 2015 were 22 per cent lower than 1990 levels, despite a slight increase compared to 2014, according to…

Call for vigilance over bird flu in Europe

Chickens (BRUSSELS) – The European Commission called Tuesday for vigilance by EU Member States’ authorities and Europe’s poultry sector and said bio-security needed to be stepped up on poultry farms.Following…

Hungarian ad tax ‘breaches EU State aid rules’

(BRUSSELS) – The Hungarian advertisement tax is in breach of EU State aid rules, the European Commission has found, because its progressive tax rates grant a selective advantage to certain…