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PRESS RELEASE 2812th Council meeting: Environment
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Resource Type: |
document --> public information
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Country: |
European Union
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Year: |
2007 |
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11130/07 (Presse 150), 28 VI 2007
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Author 1/Producer: |
Council of the European Union
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Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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Publisher: |
Press Office EC
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Publisher City: |
press.office@consilium.europa.eu, http://www.consilium.europa.eu/Newsroom
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Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->policy and regulatory Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Excavation Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Recycling/reuse Groundwater protection-->Groundwater protection overview Water and sanitation-->Water and sanitation Overview Water resources and their management -->Stresses, quality and ecological status Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
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Short description: |
Main results of the Council
The Council adopted
– a joint action on support for activities of the preparatory commission of the Comprehensive
Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation in the framework of the implementation of the EU
strategy against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,
– a common position relating to the 2008 review conference of the Convention on the prohibition
of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and on their
destruction,
– a decision on further measures in support of the implementation of the mandate of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia by amending the list of persons to
whom economic sanctions should apply,
– a regulation on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations ('ROME II'),
– a directive aimed at improving the current legal framework of the supervisory approval process
with regard to acquisitions and increase of shareholdings in the banking, insurance and securities
sectors,
– a decision establishing a Community action programme to promote activities in the field of the
protection of the Community's financial interests, by countering fraud and any other illegal
activities affecting the Community's financial interests,
– a directive laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production
with the objective of introducing animal welfare improvements in the intensive farming of
chickens,
– a regulation on organic production and labelling of organic products,
– a regulation adopting a uniform definition of drift nets,
– a common position on a draft regulation on the service in the Member States of judicial and
extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters.
The Council also reached political agreements on a draft directive on waste; a draft directive
establishing environmental quality standards in the field of water policy and a draft regulation on the banning of exports and on safe storage of metallic mercury.
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 06/07/2007
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