Environment and health

The Mediterranean Sea is preparing to become a SECA area, Sulphur Emission Control Area, or an area in which sulphur emissions from ship traffic are significantly reduced through a number of instruments such as the obligation to use very low sulphur fuels or smoke abatement systems. The proposal to safeguard [...]

Agreement in Europe to recognise it in the areas of socio-health and home care Another step is taken towards the recognition of Covid-19 as an occupational disease. The EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work, which brings together Member States, workers and employers, has reached agreement on the [...]

Commission takes new measures to promote circular business models The European Commission has put forward a package of proposals aimed at making products sustainable in the EU a practice, promoting circular business models and providing consumers with the means to participate in the green transition. The new rules advocated by [...]

Reduce material consumption, eliminate fossil fuels, protect biodiversity, promote environmental sustainability. The following are some of the points around which the VIII Environmental Action Programme revolves: it was adopted by the European Council to address the EU’s ecological transition between now and 2030. The Environmental Action Programme aims to accelerate [...]

The aim is to encourage practices to store coal in the soil in a sustainable way The EU goal for the coming years is as follows: to store more carbon in agricultural and forest soils to reduce the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, favouring with ad hoc financing the [...]

The European Commission has contributed 385million euros and a half to the Solidarity Fund (EUSF) set up in 2020 to support 19 countries, including Italy, in the coronavirus health emergency. The EUSF’s support shall finance medical care, the purchase and administration of vaccines, personal protective equipment and medical devices, healthcare [...]

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced today a 1 billion euros contribution by the European Union to the global financial commitment for forests at the 26th UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow. This five-year support package from the EU budget [...]

A package of short and medium-term measures to respond to soaring energy prices and thus reach out to businesses and households. This is the response adopted by the European Commission, which has developed a series of actions aimed at reducing the impact of price increases on the economic system and [...]

The European Commission is inviting Member States and all other interested parties to comment on several proposals to amend the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER). The objective of the proposed review is to take into account changes in several sets of State aid guidelines currently being revised and to further [...]

The bonus for bikes and scooters reduce CO2 and particulate emissions. According to an estimate by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, the more than 660.000 "mobility bonuses" granted last year by the Government to encourage the purchase of goods and services for sustainable mobility, has had a positive impact on [...]