{"id":138960,"date":"2025-04-10T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/commission-welcomes-provisional-agreement-to-reduce-microplastic-pollution\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T09:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:15:34","slug":"commission-welcomes-provisional-agreement-to-reduce-microplastic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/commission-welcomes-provisional-agreement-to-reduce-microplastic-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission welcomes provisional agreement to reduce microplastic pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138960\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The Commission welcomes the provisional agreement reached last night between the European Parliament and the Council on the Commission&#8217;s proposal to regulate and prevent microplastic pollution from plastic pellets, across the value chain, including during transport, notably at sea. The new Regulation will protect the environment while ensuring that European industries can continue to operate and expand sustainably.<\/p>\n<p>Still to this day, many plastic pellets are lost during daily operations at handling installations or during transport ending up in the environment, including in the sea, due to inadequate handling by maritime and other operators. This was the case, for example, during recent accidents in the North-West coast of Spain and in the North Sea. The new rules are expected to reduce plastic pellet losses by up to 74%, which will help preserve ecosystems and biodiversity, reduce human health risks and improve the sector&#8217;s reputation. This in turn, will benefit economic actors, for instance in the agriculture, aquaculture and tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p>To reduce administrative burden for small companies, the Commission successfully advocated to limit the certification obligations to companies handling more than 1,500 tonnes of plastic pellets per year. Below this threshold, only a self-declaration will be required. In addition, smaller companies will benefit from special assistance to help them comply with this new Regulation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Measures to prevent microplastics pollution<\/em><br \/>\nPlastic pellets contaminate water and soil, including agricultural lands, and harm ecosystems and biodiversity. Once ingested, they can cause physical harm or death to marine and coastal species, such as sea turtles, seabirds, and shellfish.\u00a0Microplastics are persistent, mobile, and extremely difficult and costly to remove from nature. They are found worldwide, even in remote locations, and in the human body, raising serious concerns about the impacts of high exposure on human health.<\/p>\n<p>Too often, the burden falls upon local communities. Therefore, economic operators and carriers will have to follow best handling measures to prevent, contain and clean up losses. These measures are based on industry best practices. For instance, they will have to ensure that the quality of the used packaging is good and stop using it if it is leaking or sifting. To contain spills, they will have to make use of catchment devices like spill trays, and when cleaning up is necessary, they will have to make use of vacuum cleaners with sufficient capacity.<\/p>\n<p>To support smaller operators, lighter requirements will apply to micro and small enterprises, which make up a significant portion of the pellet supply chain.\u00a0Standardisation bodies will develop a harmonised methodology to help economic operators and carriers monitor their losses and address data gaps. This will increase accountability and raise awareness of the impact of different practices on the environment and human health.<\/p>\n<p><em>Next steps<\/em><br \/>\nThe European Parliament and the Council will now formally have to adopt the new Regulation before it can enter into force. It will then enter into force 20 days after its publication in the Official Journal of the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_25_1023\">European Commission<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/155812\/\">Commission welcomes provisional agreement to reduce microplastic pollution<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[18513,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-138960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-reduce-microplastic-pollution","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}