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Health Working Group

ENVI 23-01-2020 - 11:48
Health Working Group

The Health Working Group consists of a forum for MEPs to discuss issues that affect the health of Europe's citizens. Many decisions are made at the European Parliament which affect health, whether it's nutritional labelling on food, health warnings on tobacco, research into new cancer treatments or cross border organ donations.

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COP25 climate change conference in Madrid

ENVI 19-12-2019 - 12:07
COP 25 in Madrid, Spain word cloud

The COP25 climate change conference was held in Madrid, Spain, from 2 to 15 December 2019, under the presidency of the Chilean government. It aimed to complete the rules for the implementation of the Paris Agreement and address a range of other issues. In advance of COP25, the European Parliament tabled questions to the European Commission and the Council and adopted a resolution during the November II plenary session.

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Taxonomy

ECON ENVI 19-12-2019 - 12:07
taxonomy

In May 2018, the European Commission presented a proposal setting out uniform criteria for determining whether an economic activity is environmentally sustainable (“taxonomy”). It further sets out a process involving a multistakeholder platform to establish a unified EU classification system based on a set of specific criteria, in order to determine which economic activities are considered sustainable. The ECON and ENVI Committees are jointly responsible for this proposal.

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Real Driving Emissions and NOx limits

ENVI 19-12-2019 - 12:07
Real Driving Emissions and NOx limits

Euro 5 and 6 Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 of the Europen Parliament and the Council sets the emission limits for cars for regulated pollutants, in particular nitrogen oxides (NOx, i.e. the combined emissions of NO and NO2) to 80 mg/km. The need to adopt the current proposal results directly from the Judgement of the General Court judgment in Direct Actions T-339/16, T-352/16 and T-391/16.

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MRV in shipping

ENVI 19-12-2019 - 12:07
MRV

On 4 February 2019, the Commission proposed to amend Regulation (EU) 2015/757 on the monitoring, reporting and verification of CO2 emissions from maritime transport (the “EU MRV Regulation”). The main goal is to be in line with the new legal framework for a global data collection system for fuel oil consumption of ships (“global IMO DCS”) adopted in 2016 by the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC).

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