The European Parliament’s negotiator on the e-Privacy regulation, Birgit Sippel MEP, has called for trilogue talks between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission to start as soon as possible, after years of member states blocking progress. E-Privacy rules will give citizens control over how their confidential information can be used or shared online.

Birgit Sippel, negotiator on the e-Privacy regulation, said:

In the previous Action Plan, the EU Commission had mainly focused on products’ end-of-life, setting ambitious targets for recycling; today’s report on the Circular Economy Action Plan goes beyond that and aims at setting sustainable and eco-friendly standards to the projecting and production of products.

Reacting to the European Parliament’s approval of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), S&D MEP Costas Mavrides, negotiator on the file on behalf of the economic and monetary affairs committee, said:

The EURACTIV Media Network is happy to announce further growth of its Media Network for Europe.

Brussels, BE - Today the Consumer Choice Center released a new policy note, titled "It's in our genes - Seizing the opportunities of genetic engineering in agriculture. Commenting on the paper, the author, the CCC's Senior Policy Analyst Bill Wirtz, says that genetic engineering channels the unique factors of necessary innovation into exciting scientific progress.