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Plastics Europe raises significant concerns about Environment Committee vote on PPWR

Plastics Europe
Today the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety  (ENVI) voted on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).
 

S&Ds: “New pesticides regulation is ambitious, feasible and fair”

S&D
Pesticides, especially those used in agriculture, are under scrutiny from the European Union due to their harmful impact on the environment, including the loss of pollinators and the degradation of soils, as well as their associated human health risks. Today's adoption of the new pesticides regulation by the European Parliament's environment committee, which introduces binding reduction targets for the first time, is a step in the right direction.

S&Ds raise ambition to tackle environmentally harmful packaging and packaging waste

S&D
The European Parliament's environment committee has today approved key reforms to European packaging regulations, marking a critical step in addressing the climate and environmental harm posed by increasing packaging waste in Europe.
 
According to the latest Eurostat data, each European generates an average of more than 188 kilograms of packaging annually, contributing to more than a 20% surge in packaging waste across the EU in the past decade.
 

IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen e.V.

EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation: Parliament is paving the way for plasticized paper – Call for a return to the goals of the Green Deal

IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen e.V.

On 24 October, the ENVI committee will vote on its compromise amendments on one of the most complex and debated files, the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). As part of the Green Deal, the new regulation is aiming at reducing packaging waste, fostering the circular economy and ensuring the functioning of the internal market by harmonised sustainability requirements for packaging.

S&Ds: member states and EU Commission called to develop long-term rural strategies to promote generational renewal

S&D
The European Parliament has just adopted a resolution on the generational renewal of future EU farms, broadly perceived as one of the biggest challenges of European agriculture. The S&D Group welcomes the overwhelming vote in favour of supporting young farmers and the recognition of young farmers’ absolute relevance in combating climate change, biodiversity loss, depopulation and threats to food security.
 

EU should finally stop its appeasement policy towards Serbia

S&D
Today, the European Parliament called on EU member states to adopt targeted restrictive measures against Serbian destabilising actors in relation to the unprecedented terrorist attack against Kosovo police officers, carried out by Serbian paramilitaries on 24 September in the north of Kosovo.
 

S&Ds on EU budget 2024: We cannot do more for European citizens with less EU money

S&D
The Socialists and Democrats led a majority for the adoption of the EU budget 2024 in the plenary of the European Parliament in Strasbourg today. The S&Ds improved the proposal made by the European Commission by including funding for citizens to help them deal with the increasing costs of living. We also put a special focus on better access to EU money for small and medium enterprises, which are the backbone of our economy.

EU and U.S. trade unions call for agreement on clean steel worldwide and oppose low cost 'dirty' steel

industriAll Europe

EU and U.S. unions are urging the European Union and the United States to conclude their 'Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminium' (GASSA) before the 31 October deadline.

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