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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10813
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment

EIA on projects - Council fears red tape

Brussels, 22/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - “Yes” to simplified environmental impact assessments (EIAs) before authorisation of projects but “no” to red tape. That was the message put across by EU environment ministers on Thursday 21 March at their first policy debate on the Commission's proposal of October 2012, aimed at revising the directive on environmental impact assessments prior to the authorisation of certain public and private projects (Directive 85/337/EEC, known as the EIA...

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ECONOMY - FINANCE
(AE) CYPRUS: Decisive weekend for aid package
(AE) ECONOMY: Dijsselbloem says reforms must go on
(AE) SLOVENIA: Ljubljana will not be applying for financial aid
SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) ENVIRONMENT: EIA on projects - Council fears red tape
(AE) ETS: Short term reform - more hope for an agreement
(AE) ENVIRONMENT: REACH - prospect of Council goodwill coalition
(AE) BIODIVERSITY: Appeal Committee must decide on pesticides toxic to bees
(AE) AGRICULTURE: Key to EP and Council talks on CAP reform
(AE) JHA: Progress on visa facilitation with Russia but still serious concerns
(AE) JHA: EU ready to ratify UN firearms protocol
(AE) JHA: More asylum seekers in 2012 and increasing numbers of Syrians
(AE) TRANSPORT: Three questions to the low cost airlines lobby on ETS, transparency and security
(AE) REGIONS:
(AE) REGIONS:
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
(AE) SOCIAL: Youth guarantee - prospect of hopes dashed
(AE) SOCIAL AFFAIRS: Go-ahead for joining ILO Convention on domestic work
(AE) SOCIAL AFFAIRS: Malta sent to Court of Justice over social security deductions
(AE) SOCIAL AFFAIRS: MEPs say people will have to retire later
(AE) SOCIAL AFFAIRS: Citizens' Initiative for unconditional universal benefit
INSTITUTIONAL
(AE) COMMISSION: Grässle wants OLAF director to resign over the Dalli case
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) RUSSIA: Barroso would like new cooperation agreement by 2014
(AE) TRADE:
(AE) SYRIA: Europeans still not united over embargo
(AE) SYRIA: EU condemns attacks against Lebanon
(AE) TURKEY: EU welcomes call of head of PKK and reactions to his call
(AE) GEORGIA: Government welcomes Commission's progress report
(AE) SOMALIA: EU releases further €33 million for AMISOM
(AE) GREAT LAKES: EU to closely cooperate with Mary Robinson
(AE) MEDITERRANEAN: Threats to forests in a fragile region
(AE) MEDITERRANEAN: EU supported programme on cross-border cooperation
(AE) EU/DEFENCE: Great concern for future of Europe's defence industry
(AE) MOROCCO:
(AE) BANGLADESH:
(AE) FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
(AE) ENVIRONMENT: Austrian environmental assessment threshold is set too high
(AE) CONSUMERS: Standard contract clauses remain subject to review
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