Dec 08, 2022 Political agreement reached on EU Deforestation Due Diligence Proposal By Claudia Harper Kim Rybarczyk The European Parliament and Council have reached political agreement on a new Regulation aimed at minimising the risk of deforestation...
Dec 02, 2022 NGO ClientEarth withdraws lawsuit against ECB’s quantitative easing programme By Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer Bruno Garcia Da Silva As we reported in our previous posts (here and here), ClientEarth filed in April 2021 legal proceedings in Belgium against the central...
Oct 03, 2022 EU Deforestation Proposal: next steps By Bruno Garcia Da Silva On 13 September 2022, the European Parliament adopted its position (the "Parliament Position”) regarding the Proposal for a Regulation...
Sep 15, 2022 EU proposal for a regulation to ban products made with forced labour - “Human rights are not for sale – at any price” By Bruno Garcia Da Silva Guillaume Croisant Jennifer Granado Aranzana On 14 September 2022, the European Commission (the “Commission”) published its long-awaited proposal for a regulation prohibiting...
Jan 17, 2022 European Commission proposes new directive to crack down on environmental crime By Guillaume Croisant Melissa Verplancke Charlotte Peiffer Bruno Garcia Da Silva +1 more... Show less On 15 December 2021, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposal (the “Proposal”) for a directive on the protection of...
Jan 17, 2022 Belgian Parliament votes in favour of recognition of crime of ecocide at national and international levels By Bruno Garcia Da Silva Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer Jean-Charles Jaïs +1 more... Show less On 2 December 2021, the Belgian Federal Parliament (Chambre des représentants / Kamer van volksvertegenwoordigers) adopted by a large...