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Minister O’Brien publishes Policy Paper on future of Irish Water   The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien TD has today (23rd February 2021) published the policy paper “Irish Water – Towards a national, publicly-owned, regulated, water services utility” following its approval at Cabinet. The Policy Paper sets out the Government’s views and expectations on the next steps in the transformation of the water sector tha...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Political commitments to greater environmental sustainability are translating into policies and legislation in the EU and UK to encourage circular economies: switching from the linear take-make-consume-dispose model for products to closed loop industrial processes. 2020 UK implementation of EU legislation Legislating to deal with waste and the environment is not new and current initiatives on...

The European Commission announced an investment of €121 million for new integrated projects under the LIFE programme for the Environment and Climate Action. This funding – increased by 20% compared to last year – will promote the green recovery and help Belgium, Germany, Ireland, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Slovakia to reach their green targets. These integrated projects are expected to channel significant additional funds, helping Member States ...

“Common ground is just that – the soil we tread on that gently holds us together,” he said. The conference was hosted by the new Shared Island Unit set up by the government to help maintain all-island relations post-Brexit. Speakers, including scientists, regulators and environmental activists, said while there were strong links and shared projects between universities and environmental groups north and south, official policy was not always so closely aligned. They raised concerns around ...

Water futures: the latest battleground in the defence of the fundamental right to water According to the United Nations, water use has increased sixfold over the past century and is rising by about 1 per cent a year. For stock market traders in the United States, water futures offer an opportunity to lock-in water prices, but human rights campaigners say, “it is a serious mistake to consider water a commodity”. (AP/Esteban Felix ) Share this page According to the United Nations, water use ...

The applicants, who had all been arrested pursuant to European Arrest Warrants (EAWs) before 31 December 2020, failed in their applications for writs of habeas corpus. Their applications had been made on a single common ground: that, since 11 pm on 31 December 2020, the end of the transition period defined by the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU and Euratom, there was no longer any legal basis in international law for their surrender; and that in consequence there w...

New laws regulating water usage by businesses and other heavy users are not strict enough and will allow many operate under the radar.

coastal work to combat erosion, for example, moles and jetties Screening by Determination MMO to assess a project and decide whether an EIA is necessary. This will result in a screening opinion being provided to the applicant. Screening by determination may be a result of a request from an applicant. Alternatively, if MMO considers that the proposed project has the potential to require an EIA, the application will be placed on hold and the applicant will be directed to request a screening op...

Aude Cefaliello The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) represents ‘gig’ workers. At the end of November the High Court of England and Wales ruled, in its favour, that the government of the United Kingdom had failed adequately to transpose two European Union occupational health-and-safety directives into domestic law. The ‘Framework Directive’ 89/391/EEC, on measures to encourage improvement in workers’ health and safety at work, is the cornerstone of the OSH regime i...

European rivers are fragmented by over one million barriers Healthy rivers are flowing rivers, say researchers. Europe’s main rivers coloured by basins. Thickness is proportional to stream order. Credit: EEA, Copenhagen, 2012. Free-flowing rivers are crucial harbingers and guardians of life. They not only provide humans with clean water for drinking, agriculture, and other economic activities, they also house around 40% of the world’s species of fish. However, Europe’s rivers have become...