EU moves towards standardised environmental reporting

Brussels – The European Institutions have reached agreement on the proposed Standardised Reporting Directive, which was proposed as part of the European Commission’s Better Regulation initiative. The Directive will harmonise and simplify data collection across 56 other Directives covering water, chemicals, waste and other environmental areas.

The new Directive will simplify environmental reporting, reducing the burden for national and local governments. It replaces an earlier directive which harmonised reporting into three-year cycles, but had become inefficient as new legislation had not been included in this existing framework. In total, only 23 directives were covered in the previous harmonised reporting framework.

The new reporting Directive is expected to be passed in tandem with new Circular Economy and Waste legislation. The European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee will finalise its position on both in January 2018.

For more information, see the DG Environment website.

The EU-funded MarginUp! project has launched to raise the potential for biodiversity and the production of biobased industrial feedstocks on…

Read Story

By Itziar Vidorreta and Jokin Garatea, GAIA "Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) are a key part of Europe’s economy, but…

Read Story

CETENMA CSCP, GAIA Cluster, and G!E are partners in a new Horizon Europe project - SOILUTIONS - that will kick-off…

Read Story
Arrow-up