EC launches 2 public consultations
The European Commission is currently performing a ‘Fitness Check’ of the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive — Directive 2009/147/EC and Council Directive 92/43/EEC respectively.
In this context, it has launched a public online consultation.
As part of the Commission’s Smart Regulation policy, the Fitness Check is intended to verify the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance, and European added value of the directives in question. In particular, it will analyse successes and problems with regard to implementation and integration, related costs, opportunities for improving implementation and reducing administrative burden, and the state of play in the implementation in different EU countries, while taking the views of key stakeholder groups into consideration.
Additional information can be found on the Fitness Check webpage.
To find out how you can contribute, please visit the public consultation webpage or download detailed explanations here. The consultation will remain open until 24 July 2015.
According to the indicative planning, the Commission report on the results of the Fitness Check is expected to be published in early 2016.
The online questionnaire is available here
Source: European Commission, Directorate General for Environment
EU ecolabel for fishery & aquaculture products
The regulation on a Common Market Organisation for fisheries and aquaculture products (CMO, Reg. EU 1379/2013) commits the Commission to submit a feasibility report on options for a Union-wide ecolabel scheme for fishery and aquaculture products. The consultation will contribute to this feasibility study.
The consultation is intended to assist the Commission to understand opinions on the impacts and issues associated with fisheries and aquaculture ecolabels (positive and negative) from different stakeholder groups.
The online questionnaire is available here
Source: European Commission, Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
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