This document provides technical details and support for the implementation of air quality monitoring under the Directive (EU) 2024/2881 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2024 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (recast) (AAQD, Directive (EU) 2024/2881)....

The EU aims to protect the environment and human health by ensuring cleaner industrial processes. As a result, the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) is drastically reducing harmful emissions to the air, water and soil.

Members of a leather tanning association took coordinated actions and made investments to reduce water pollution. This success story is based on an actual case study and demonstrates that EU industrial emission legislation creates incentives and opportunities for companies to: cooperate in...

The Commission established an Expert Working Group (EWG) for the assessment of severity of procedures to facilitate the implementation of Directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes. All Members States and main stakeholder organisations were invited to nominate...

The European Union has put in place rules - legal do's and don'ts - to provide us all with environmental benefits that include clean water, breathable air and a healthy nature. These rules need to be followed by businesses and others, otherwise society will suffer through increased health-care...

EU industrial emissions rules triggered investment and research leading to the use of silica fume as a concrete additive. This success story is based on an actual case study of the non-ferrous metals sector demonstrating that EU industrial emissions legislation creates incentives and...

Level(s) is a voluntary reporting framework to improve the sustainability of buildings. Using existing standards, Level(s) provides a common EU approach to the assessment of environmental performance in the built environment. The buildings sector is one of the most resource consuming sectors in...

Level(s) is a voluntary reporting framework to improve the sustainability of buildings. Using existing standards, Level(s) provides a common EU approach to the assessment of environmental performance in the built environment. The buildings sector is one of the most resource consuming sectors in...

Level(s) aims at improving resource efficiency in the construction sector and bringing buildings into the circular economy; a regenerative economic system in which resource and energy consumption are minimised. Level(s) links the individual building's environmental performance with resource...

This brochure presents at a glance the currently listed invasive alien species of Union concern, offering brief, non-technical and informal summaries of their origin, their present distribution in the EU, how they threaten our native biodiversity, and how the applicable restrictions and...