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European Parliament and Member State negotiators reached an agreement on the revision of the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive (IPPC) on Friday, 18 June.

On 25 June 2010 the reference document on best available techniques for the Cement, Lime and Magnesium Oxide Manufacturing Industries was published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

On 24 June, CEMBUREAU participated in a stakeholders meeting aimed at reviewing the first draft of a report commissioned by DG Enterprise and carried out by Cobham and Bio Intelligence service entitled “Sustainable Industrial Policy – Building on the Eco-design Directive – Energy-Using Products Group Analysis Lot 4: Industrial and Laboratory Furnaces and Ovens - Tasks 1 – 3”.

The head of the Commission’s DG Environment, Karl Falkenberg, told a conference during Green Week that the EU did not need new directives on biodiversity.

Environment Commissioner Janez Potoènik told an audience at Green Week that Europe would have to tackle the issue of decoupling growth from resource use.

The proposal to review the energy products taxation Directive has been postponed to the autumn 2010. The proposal would review Directive 2003/96/EC to introduce a minimum harmonised tax on energy products based on their CO2 emissions and additional taxes based on the energy content.

UN climate change talks in Bonn took place from 31 May to 9 June 2010, with the final outcome to be presented at the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancún (COP 16) at the end of this year.

The first meeting of the United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC1) – was convened with the mandate to elaborate a legally binding instrument on mercury.