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EUROFER welcomes WTO ruling confirming Indonesia's illegal export ban of nickel ore

EUROFER

Brussels, 2 December 2022 – EUROFER welcomes the WTO Panel report ruling against Indonesia’s ban on the export of nickel ore. These measures have been artificially distorting the global market for nickel ore and fuelling the new export-oriented stainless steel production in Indonesia, whilst harming the EU stainless sector.

ENVI vote on waste shipments fits environmental and social standards, but stronger monitoring for OECD countries is needed, says EUROFER

EUROFER

Brussels, 01 December 2022 - The changes brought to the Waste Shipment Regulation are a welcome step in the right direction to ensure that environmental and social standards equivalent to the EU’s are met when waste is exported to third countries.

Industry in crisis! Europe must step up!

industriAll Europe

Industry in crisis! Europe must step up!

Workers in Europe are facing an escalating social crisis. Our industries are facing an existential crisis and the climate clock is ticking.

Meeting in Brussels today, the members of industriAll Europe's Executive Committee held an intensive debate on the energy price and cost of living crisis and the state of European industry.

Repowering Europe’s wind farms is a win-win-win

WindEurope

What happens when wind turbines reach the end of their lifetime? WindEurope’s annual “End of Life Issues and Strategies” event (EoLIS2022) showcases the latest trends in repowering, decommissioning, dismantling and recycling of wind turbines. The latest data presented at the event shows the benefits of repowering. It nearly triples the capacity of a wind farm while reducing the number of turbines by a quarter, all on the same site. It’s a win-win-win situation for energy security, public acceptance and biodiversity.

Giving medicines a new life: EU should foster patients’ access to Value Added Medicines

Medicines for Europe

Innovation throughout a medicine’s lifecycle is vital to bringing new solutions to address gaps in healthcare

Brussels, 30 November 2022

The added value of innovating on existing medicines may be in finding a new indication, by treating a different disease with the same medicine or treating a specific sub-population, improving efficacy of the treatment, being easier to tolerate, or improving overall adherence.

CEN AND CENELEC AGREED ON STRENGTHENING STANDARDIZATION COOPERATION WITH UKRAINE, GEORGIA, AND MOLDOVA

CEN and CENELEC

CEN and CENELEC are happy to welcome the standardization bodies of Ukraine (DSTU), Georgia (GEOSTM) and Moldova (ISM) as Affiliates. This decision furthers the consolidation of the links between the EU and the three Eastern Partnership countries.

PPWR revision: EU must follow the scientific evidence

Fibre Packaging Europe

The fibre-based packaging sector acknowledges the Commission’s proposal for a Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and looks forward to supporting an evidence-based approach during the next stages of the legislative process.

S&Ds: The Circular Economy Package II is a step in the right direction, but postponing rules on greenwashing is a missed opportunity

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

Following today’s presentation of the Circular Economy Package II, the Socialists and Democrats welcome this important step in the right direction for implementing the objectives of the Green Deal. The Progressives in the European Parliament regret, however, the Commission’s decision to postpone the regulation on substantiating environmental claims using the Product and Organisation Environmental Footprint methods, the so-called ‘Green Claims’ proposal, which was intended to fight corporate greenwashing.

Orbán should do the reforms and let Hungarians benefit from the EU funds, says Iratxe García

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

The Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament welcome the European Commission’s decision to keep the EU money for the Orbán government frozen, since it hasn’t made real reforms to secure a functioning rule of law to the detriment of Hungarians and all other European citizens.

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