This report is the first deliverable of the contract 'Evaluation of the Directive 2006/66/EC on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators'. The purpose of this report is to summarise the Member State (MS) implementation reports covering the period from 26 September 2012 to...

Collaborative platforms, such as Airbnb, Blablacar and Peerby, have changed the ways in which goods and services are offered and consumed in the economy. There has been a recent growth in studies analysing the drivers, impacts and scope of the collaborative economy. Some of them point to...

The objectives of this study are to provide a review of how the current (2014-2020) MFF arrangements for climate mainstreaming, and for tracking climate-related expenditure and its achievements, have operated in practice; and to make recommendations for potential options for improving the current...

This report presents the final results from an interim evaluation of Decision No 406/2009/EC (the Effort Sharing Decision, ESD). The evaluation has considered the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and EU added value of the ESD to date. It also considered the impacts of the ESD on...

This study intends to focus on the transfer of environmental technologies from developed to developing countries and the role that the governments of developed countries and the private sector play in this transfer.

The Sustainable Consumption and Production / Sustainable Industrial Policy Action Plan (AP) was adopted in July 2008 with the intention of reviewing progress by 2012. Ahead of this 2012 review the Commission is reviewing the progress of the AP by means of this mid term evaluation. The AP...

This study estimates potential energy savings found through increased resource efficiency in select product groups, sectors and examples of industrial symbioses in the EU. Six areas offer the greatest energy savings from resource-efficiency initiatives: improving general recycling efforts,...

The RoHS Directive (2002/95/EC) (RoHS 1) has been recast and has now become Directive 2011/65/EU that entered into force on 21 July 2011, repealing Directive 2002/95/EC on 3 January 2013. The RoHS Directive (2011/65/EU) on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical...

With the coming into force of RoHS 2, an open scope has been adopted concerning products that need to comply with the substance restrictions as well as with other administrative obligations. To accommodate this change, the new Category 11 was added to Annex I of the Directive, which lists the...