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The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) has voiced its concerns ahead of the adoption, on 9 July, by the Technical Adaptation Committee (comitology) for Directive 2008/98/EC on waste of [...]

The European Parliament rejected, on 10 December, a proposal that would allow paper to cease being considered as waste or to become 'end-of-waste' paper earlier in the recycling process. MEPs [...]

Australian paper company PaperlinX Ltd received regulatory clearance from the European Commission on October 13 to take over the paper merchant division of Dutch company Buhrmann. The decision follows a [...]

Is the planned aid injection of Euro 35 million (GBP23 million) into British newsprint producer Shotton part of an environmentally-friendly paper recycling scheme or just a hidden production subsidy? This [...]

This new case comes at the end of a year in which the Commission has taken a long line of decisions against cartels of all kinds. Competition Commissioner Mario Monti [...]

The European Commission has decided to allow the German Government to grant Euro 70 million in state aid to the paper production company Adolf Jass Schwarza. The decision was announced [...]

The European Commission has decided to give mandates to the European =Union Eco-labelling Board (EUEB) to draw up and/or review eco-label =criteria and to define assessment and verification requirements for [...]

The European Commission's Blue Paper on an integrated maritime policy creates both hopes and frustrations among stakeholders. Jean-Yves Le Drian, president of the Region of Brittany (France) and vice-president of [...]

The Commission for Constitutional Affairs of the EU Committee of the Regions (CoR) has adopted its draft white paper on multilevel governance (see Europolitics 3706). This is a 'political project [...]

The Belgian Presidency intends to bargain for a paragraph on youth in the Laeken declaration, and will push for a strong political follow up to the forthcoming White Paper on [...]

The European Commission has adopted a Green Paper on creating a European =Public Prosecutor to protect the EU's financial interests. The purpose =of the Green Paper is to launch a [...]

The future Green Paper on urban mobility, which the European Commission is expected to adopt in autumn 2007, should consider the possibility of mandatory sustainable urban transport plans in urban [...]

The convergence of technologies and content in the audiovisual sector, with smartphones and televisions now connected to the internet, will affect economic growth and innovation, the pluralism of the media, [...]

This year, the legislative phase of the Financial Services Action Plan (FSAP), launched in 1999, drew to a close. The new strategy, for 2005-2010, does not introduce much in terms [...]

The report on the follow-up of the White Paper for a European Communication Policy has been delayed. The document was initially due at the end of June, then in early [...]

A Green Paper on economic migration, due to be adopted on December 14, will not now be unveiled until January 11 as the European Commission is still putting the finishing [...]

The Platform of European Social NGOs feels that Margot Wallstrom's White Paper on a European Communication Strategy is not insistent enough about the responsibility of the EU institutions. On the [...]

Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier believes that it is too early to predict the results of the consultation launched on 24 March with the publication of the European Commission's green [...]

The European Commission has finally decided on June 22 as the date for the publication of the Green Paper on energy efficiency. The document will launch the debate for the [...]

As always on issues regarding road transport, it has been plain sailing: hours of sometimes 'emotional' discussion have, according to the rapporteur, been needed, with votes deferred for months before [...]

The forthcoming Green Paper on Corporate Social Responsibility will now include environmental issues as well as labour rights, making the paper a product of three European Commission Directorates-General. As well [...]

European local authorities are demanding a say in plans to forge a genuine EU cultural policy. They put their case on November 24, presenting a 'Green Paper on the cultural [...]

The European Commission's recently-published Green Paper on public-private partnerships (PPPs) could have been more ambitious, European public services lobby CEEP* has suggested in its initial response. The Green Paper unveiled [...]

The European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy is continuing with its debate on the report by Eluned Morgan (PES, UK) on the Green Paper on Europe's energy strategy. [...]

The European Commission will take the wraps off its long-awaited Green Paper on a European maritime policy on 7 June, the result of efforts over the past year by the [...]

The final version of the Green Paper contains the same elements as those outlined in European Report 2747. At a technical briefing given to coincide with the publication, Ms Caroline [...]

Reflection on security of energy supply in the European Union is continuing, said Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, announcing on April 14 the publication of a new Green Paper on security [...]

The European Commission's green paper on maritime policy could recommend a new legal framework and new institutions to deal with Europe's coastal areas, EU Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg told representatives [...]

Specifically, ISUPE would have liked to see a solid commitment to table a draft Framework Directive on services of general interest, covering such issues as the universal service, non-discrimination, continuity, [...]

Following close on the solemn commitment by the EU27, at the last EU summit of heads of state and government, to make drastic cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, [...]

All reference to the strategy of gradually uncoupling economic growth and transport growth has disappeared from the draft mid-term review of the 2001 White Paper on a common transport policy, [...]

In 2006, barely 0.3% of young people aged 16 to 19 were able to go abroad with support from European programmes. Based on this finding and encouraged by theCouncil, the [...]

The Committee of the Regions (CoR) has requested that the European Commission prepare a white paper in which it clearly explains the concept of territorial cohesion' and how to achieve [...]

ACI Europe, which represents some 450 airports across 48 European countries, has queried some of the proposals outlined by the European Commission in its White Paper on a common transport [...]

A delegation from the Youth Eco-Parliament has officially submitted a White Paper on the environment during a ceremony held in Brussels. Present at the ceremony were Prince Laurent of Belgium [...]

The Committee of the Regions (CoR) is calling upon the European Commission to dedicate a green paper to the EU's mountainous regions, just as it did for the maritime regions. [...]

The draft report by Mathieu Grosch (EPP, Belgium) on the European Commission's white paper on transport received a fairly positive reaction on its first passage before the EP Committee on [...]

The European Commission's green paper, to be published on 27 January, resumes recent Court of Justice case law regarding the award of public procurement contracts and questions stakeholders on the [...]

Growing importance. The increased use of PPPs is partly due to national budgetary constraints, but is also explained by the state's evolving role from public service provider to organiser and [...]

It is with satisfaction tainted with frustration - even worry - that the maritime regions welcomed the publication by the European Commission of its blue paper on the EU's Maritime [...]

Will road transport be included in the EU's Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) some day? The possibility cannot be ruled out judging from the white paper on transport being finalised by [...]

What is the role of auditors, their mode of governance and supervision in the EU and what lessons can be learned from the financial crisis, which also concerned them? This [...]

EU Transport CommissioneraJacques Barrot presented his recently revised White Paper on the EU's Common Transport Policy to MEPs when he addressed the EP's Transport Committee in Brussels on 11 July. [...]

The White Paper on EU communication policy is much needed, the European Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee (AFCO) believes, but the blueprint is far from complete. MEPs gave their input to [...]

The European lawyers' lobby, the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Union (CCBE), has given a mixed response to the European Commission's Green Paper on Alternative [...]

The white paper on transport presented by the European Commission, on 28 March, lists a set of measures to improve urban mobility and reduce CO2 emissions from urban transport (one [...]

Jointly presented by Erkki Liikanen, the Enterprise Commissioner, and the Environment Commissioner, Margot Wallstrom, the White Paper is intended to balance the essential need to protect human health and promote [...]

A university law professor closely involved with Sport&EU, an association for the study of sport and the EU, is mystified that the European Commission has already ruled out any new [...]

Around 20% of Finns (and over 40% of 3-18 year olds) are members of non-profit making sports clubs - a situation that they wish to maintain if not improve on. [...]

Reactions have been coming in on the mid-term review of the 2001 White Paper on EU Transport Policy, presented by the European Commission on 22 June (see Europolitics 3111). There [...]