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Years: 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
REACH – a costly supplement to the chemical branch
REACH, the European Union registry system of chemical substances, directly concerns all the Polish enterpreneurs that introduce into the European markets more than one ton of chemical substances per year. The system is obligatory and extremely complicated, therefore an authority that helps firms to interpret regulations and fulfil the new obligations of the system was needed. In Poland the Industrial Chemistry Research Institite named after professor Ignacy Mo¶cicki serves as the Consultation Point for REACH. We present an interwiew with Mr. AndrzejKrze¶lak, the representant of the institute.
ekopartner 9/2008
Food market in the UE needs simplification, harmonization and better safety assurance
On the 8th of July this year, members of the European Parliament updated and simplified the EU principles regulating application of additives in food products. As for enzymes changes are revolutionary.
ekopartner 8/2008
Voivodship programmes of small retention - review
The superior aim of the voivodship programme of small retention is to define the principles
governing water resources management - improvement of their condition, their restoration and enlargement. The process of their updating is currently taking place in many voivodships in Poland. However, because of works on other superior planning documents also under way
(such as plans of water management in river basins that should be ready in 2009) - programmes of small retention will have to be monitored.
ekopartner 8/2008
Inherited from the former government: urgent correction of NATURA 2000 sites needed
The network of protected sites NATURA 2000 was established in the EU in 1992. However, we still have problems with the designation of suitable sites. Therefore Poland may be punished with severe fines - warns the European Court of Justice.
ekopartner 5/2008
Hot discussion about the white certificates bill
Energy efficiency has become one of the most important element of Polish energy policy.
The bill that legislates on white certificates as securities confirming market players’ savings on energy is almost finished. Its success depends on the effectiveness of procedural mechanisms. What are the proposals in the bill?
ekopartner 2/2008
Ambitious plans more concrete. Package of reforms of legislation on the greenhouse gases reduction
In spite of doubts MPs unanimously accepted legislative package presented in the European Parliament on the 23rd January 2008. In the package it is proposed that new activities in energy field and climate change should be undertaken, mainly greenhouse gases reduction.
ekopartner 2/2008
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