Kategorie: Environmental Law
ESRS standards, reporting content and general reporting information
The CSRD, the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, will gradually introduce new obligations to provide more detailed and comparable information on the sustainability of companies and the non-financial aspects of their business from 2024. ESRS (European Sustainability Reporting Standards) provide guidance on what information companies will be required to report and how. The obligation …
Read moreCSRD, NFRD and CSSD – what are the EU sustainability directives about?
Sustainability is currently a topic of intense debate within the European Union. In recent years, the EU institutions have gradually issued and, over time, continuously updated legal documents and measures covering this topic. The most important of these are the CSRD, the NFRD and the CSSD. You can read about the legislative history and legal …
Read moreLittering costs and a new way of accounting for single-use plastic packaging
As part of efforts to progressively prevent overuse of plastic packaging and reduce its adverse environmental impacts, in particular within the framework of the European Union’s common policy, new rules and thresholds for the use of certain single-use plastic packaging and packaging devices are gradually being introduced, among other things. Amendments to legislation At the …
Read moreCapping of energy prices
Introduction On 5 October 2022, the Government approved a regulation on the determination of electricity and gas prices in an extraordinary market situation, which was authorised by an amendment to the Energy Act[1].The proposal of the regulation was submitted by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in response to the extraordinary situation on the electricity …
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