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ETS: NIMs Delay Increases Uncertainty ITRE adopts low carbon economy opinion ETS: draft Monitoring & Reporting Regulation acceptable to industry ETS: new registry rules adopted by Commission ETS: IFIEC calls for indirect effects compensation ETS: Commission decision on carbon leakage sectors published ETS: UBS predicts EUA plunge to €3 ETS: Q&A on international credits published Climate Change: Parliament prepares for COP17 ENVI vote on energy efficiency postponed Cement Partnership on Mercury officially launched Calculating the Environmental footprint of products BUSINESSEUROPE raises concerns about BAT conclusions Council codifies Environmental Impact Assessment Directives and adds CCS Significant expansion of Natura 2000 network C&L Cement and Clinker: potential change in sensitiser category Application of Life Cycle Assessment and Thinking to waste management Eco-label and GPP for office buildings under development Commission Workplan shows busy years ahead Working Time Directive revision: state of play EUROFER Construction Seminar Go sustainable, be responsible! European civil society on the road to Rio+20

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CEMBUREAU welcomes new President and Vice President

Brussels 7 June 2011 - Mr Ignacio Madridejos has been elected as President of CEMBUREAU for a two-year term at the Association's General Assembly held today (7 June 2011) in Brussels (Belgium) after having completed his mandate of Vice-President over the last year. He takes over from Mr Jean-Paul Méric (France)

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Lifting of the waste status must be subject to strict conditions

The revised Waste Framework Directive (Directive 2008/98/EC) has opened up the possibility to lift, through comitology, the waste status for certain waste streams. This proposition is attractive to Member States and to industry. For Member States, it will reduce the total volume of waste and facilitate progress towards national waste reduction targets. It may also stimulate resource efficiency by creating a market for new ex-waste products. For some industries, it will allow the use of certain waste streams outside the framework of the waste legislation and its specific requirements.

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ETS: NIMs Delay Increases Uncertainty

November 2011 - Member States had to submit their NIMS for EU-ETS 3 by 30 September 2011. To this day, however, only 7 Member States (Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland and Romania) have notified their respective NIMs.