The EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles envisages "a circular textiles ecosystem that has sufficient capacities for innovative fibre-to-fibre recycling, while the incineration and landfilling of textiles is reduced to the minimum". The general objective of this study is to...

On behalf of CEN/TC 248/WG 26 and ISO/TC 38/WG 22, the European Commission's Joint Research Center (JRC) organised a collaborative study on the determination of PVC and phthalates in textiles products. The purpose of the study was the comparison and validation of four methods for the...

The Mediterranean Sea is a semi-closed sea connected with the open sea through the Strait of Gibraltar. Due to the circulation pattern and the long residence time, the Mediterranean Sea is a sensitive environment to eutrophication pressures and it is put at risk from direct and indirect impacts...

This report presents an overview of the 2021 wildfire season in the Mediterranean region on the basis of the data that are available in the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), which is complemented with a specific analysis of some of the most damaging fires during this campaign,...

The objective of the report is to detect steep declining trends in biomass and abundance, of anchovy and sardine from acoustic surveys in the Mediterranean Sea. Declining trends would give an early warning on the recent stock dynamics and potentially trigger a EC DG MARE request of priority...