The Directive 2006/21/EC on the treatment of waste from the extractive industries, also called the mining waste Directive (MWD), requires Member States to report to the Commission on their national implementation in three-year intervals based on a questionnaire developed by the Commission in...

The implementation of Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions (IED) from 7 January 2013 onward will result in tighter regulation of pollutant emissions to air and water from industrial installations operating in EU Member States. Under the IED, new conclusions will be adopted for Best...

Soil and water are two key resources that directly or indirectly affect our everyday activities and are closely linked through the capacity of soil to retain water. A better understanding of the SWR-capacity underlying mechanisms and factors of influence is important to ensure and enhance the...

The circular economy is rapidly rising up political and business agendas. In contrast to today's largely linear, 'take-make-use-dispose' economy, a circular economy represents a development strategy that enables economic growth while aiming to optimise the chain of consumption of biological and...

The objective of this study is to assess the economic, social and environmental impacts of alternative policy packages to improve European resource productivity, as measured by GDP per unit of Raw Material Consumption (RMC). The analysis is quantitative in nature and a modelling approach is...

The Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) requires operators whose activities cause an imminent threat of, or actual, environmental damage, to prevent or remediate the damage. There are three categories of environmental damage; land, water, and protected species and natural haibitats damage,...

This report describes results of the public consultation on unconventional fossil fuels, which generated 22 875 responses, with citizen contributions accounting more than 95% of the total. More than 90% of citizen responses came from five EU countries: Poland, France, Romania, Spain and Germany....

Rhis study on "Ex-post evaluation of certain waste stream Directives" was carried out for the European Commission by a team led by BIO Intelligence Service and including Institute for European Environmental Policy and Arcadis. The objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness,...

The objectives of the report were to provide information on how inspections are currently being undertaken for selected Member States in the policy areas of water, nature protection and CITES so as to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore, combined with information from other...

The study analysed several existing indicators that track the different types of resource flows in the economy, such as materials (abiotic and biotic), energy, water and land use. The selected indicators were then evaluated for their appropriateness for target setting at the EU policy level. The...