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3 Consultations and Roadmaps, BNU October 2016, Brussels News Updates

Revision of the Clean Vehicles Directive

The objective of the Directive is to increase the demand and deployment of cleaner vehicles thus strengthening the competitiveness of the EU industry while decreasing CO2 and pollutant emissions of transport. To achieve this goal, the specific policy objectives of this initiative can be defined as 1) increasing the public procurement of all categories of clean vehicles, 2) adjusting the available options to provide adequate incentives to procure/develop cleaner vehicles and 3) adjusting and simplifying the existing monetisation methodology to remove counter – incentives to the procurement/development of cleaner vehicles.
Source: http://ec.europa.eu/

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Evaluation Roadmap – Directive on Batteries and accumulators and Waste Batteries and Accumulators

The evaluation will address all substantive provisions in the Directive and will consider all relevant aspects, i.e. legal (e.g. legal base, internal coherence, consistency with other legislation in approaches, terminology and legal concepts), environmental (e.g. main environmental impacts of batteries along the whole life cycle of batteries, efficiency of measures), economic and social (e.g. access to (critical) raw materials, costs and benefits).The objective of the Batteries Directive is to contribute to the protection, preservation and improvement of the quality of the environment by minimising the negative impact of batteries and waste batteries. It also aims at ensuring the smooth functioning of the internal market by harmonising requirements concerning the heavy metal content and labelling of batteries and accumulators.
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/

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Public Consultation on the Evaluation of the Aerosol Dispensers Directive

The Aerosol Dispensers Directive is one of the oldest EU legislations related to product safety. The directive was adopted in 1975 harmonising the differing national legislations in force at that time in order to create a genuine European market based on common requirements concerning the safety of the dispensers and the hazards due to pressure. The objective of the evaluation is to assess whether the Directive is meeting its objectives of guaranteeing free circulation of aerosol dispensers within the EU while ensuring a high degree of safety.
Deadline: 15 January 2017
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/

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Public Consultation on the Active Substance Methoxyfenozide

EFSA will assess all comments from interested parties regarding the active substance methoxyfenozide. Input is requested on the following: physical/chemical properties; details of uses and further information; methods of analysis; mammalian toxicology; residues; and environmental fate and behavior.
Deadline: 20 November 2016
Website: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/

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Consultation on the Interim evaluation of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology

The objective of the consultation is to ensure that, in addition to the organisations and individuals directly involved in or benefitting from the activities of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), wider stakeholder groups as well as the general public have a say in its future direction.
Deadline: 20 November 2016
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/

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