EEL News Service 2004/06, 25 March 2004

Added to Legislation, Decisions:

*Decision 280/2004/EC concerning a mechanism for monitoring Community greenhouse gas emissions and for implementing the Kyoto Protocol

The decision spells out how greenhouse gas emissions are to be monitored and reported.

*Decision 2004/209/EC on the allocation of quantities of controlled substances allowed for essential uses in the Community in 2004 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council

*Decision 2004/210/EC setting up Scientific Committees in the field of consumer safety, public health and the environment

*Decision 2004/249/EC concerning a questionnaire for Member States reports on the implementation of Directive 2002/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)

Added to Case law page:

*C-396/01 Commission v Ireland

ECJ 11 March 2004, nyr

Dublin failed to identify polluted waters and nitrate vulnerable zones, and did not establish action and monitoring programmes required by the Council Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991 concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources.

Added to Case law page, External sources:

*Leading ECJ Judgments in EC Environmental Law (compiled by the European Commission’s DG Environment) (pdf file)

http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/law/leading_cases_en.pdf.

Added to Conferences page:

*30 March – 1 April 2004, ENDS seminar, Birmingham, UK

*11-12 May 2004,What’s The Point Of Corporate Responsibility?, London, UK

*15-16 April 2004, Comhar Conference for National Sustainable Development Councils and National Sustainable Development Experts, Kinsale, Ireland

*1-4 June 2004, Green Week Conference 2004, Brussels, Belgium

*1-3 April 2003, ENCOS 2004, Berlin, Germany

*2-3 April 2003, Conference on multilateralism at risk – beyond globalization, Brussels, Belgium

*19-23 April 2004, Workshop on introduction to biosafety and risk assessment for the environmental release of GMOs, Trieste, Italy

*19-30 April 2004, Twelfth session of the commission on sustainable development (CSD-12), New York, USA

*20-21 April 2004, Carbon market insights 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

*20-23 April, UNEP-GEF sub-regional workshop on development of national biosafety, frameworks for francophone Africa, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

*26-29 April 2004, IAIA’04: impact assessment for industrial development – whose business is it?, Vancouver, Canada

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Editors of the EEL Newsservice

Wybe Th. Douma (T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague)

Daria Ratsiborinskaya (Institute of European law, MGIMO-University, Moscow)

Technical realisation

Marco van der Harst, Julien J.M. Simon

(T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague)

e-mail: mailto:eelnewsservices@asser.nl