All Environment Publications

On 16 December 2021, the European Commission adopted new measures aimed at effectively banning most forms of EU trade in ivory.

The EU already has strict rules on ivory trade and is committed to taking further action against elephant poaching and ivory trafficking globally.

The Commission has published the 6th Water Framework Directive and Floods Directive Implementation Report

Commission Report on the implementation of the Industrial Emissions Directive for 2013-2018

Healthy soils are essential for achieving climate neutrality, a clean and circular economy, reversing biodiversity loss, providing healthy food, safeguarding human health, and halting desertification and land degradation.

Forests are under pressure by inadequate management practices and climate changes. This research is based on the latest scientific evidence to show how biodiversity, the bioeconomy and climate change mitigation are underpinned by Europe's forests.

All documents - proposal for a new regulation on waste shipments.

All documents - EU soil strategy for 2030.

All documents - Proposal for a regulation on the making available on the Union market as well as export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation.