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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11455

17 December 2015
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment
Council gives guidelines on changes to national air pollution caps

Brussels, 16/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - The Council of the EU has had its work cut out for it with the changes to the national upper limits on the emission of certain air pollutants that lead to 400,000 premature deaths in the EU each year.

It took all the Luxembourg Presidency's talents of stubbornness and flexibility to manage to reconcile the viewpoints of most ministers in Brussels on Wednesday 16 December on the review of EU Directive 2003/35/EC on national emissions caps (the NEC...

Contents

EUROPEAN COUNCIL
SECTORAL POLICIES
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
EXTERNAL ACTION
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
ECONOMY - FINANCE
INSTITUTIONAL
NEWS BRIEFS