The Commission adopted a Communication setting out its work on ensuring compliance with EU law, so that citizens and businesses can benefit from the same rights across the EU.
The Commission has taken legal steps against Member States to ensure compliance with EU rules on single use plastics, air quality, water, chemicals, nature protection and other issues.
The third Environmental Implementation Review published in September shows that progress in applying environmental rules has been made in some areas but the implementation gap in other areas is widening.
Check out the newly launched interactive infringements map and dashboard for information on active and closed infringement cases per country, sector and more.
The Commission took legal steps against Member States to ensure compliance with EU rules on air quality, water, chemical, nature protection and other issues.
The Commission has taken legal steps against Member States to ensure compliance with EU rules on industrial emissions, air quality, nature protection, environmental impact assessment and liability.
The public consultation as part of the evaluation of the Environmental Liability Directive is open for feedback until 4 August.
The Commission took legal steps against Member States to ensure compliance with EU rules on waste water management, protection of Natura 2000 sites, species protection, landfills and industrial emissions.
The European Commission adopted its revised Guidance on the EU regime governing ivory trade on 16 December, as part of its commitment under the EU Biodiversity Strategy to take additional action against elephant poaching and ivory trafficking globally.
The Strategy sets out concrete measures for the protection, restoration and sustainable use of soils.
On 8 October 2021, at its 48th session, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted Resolution 48/13, officially recognising for the first time that having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right.
