Regulation (EU) 2024/1991 of 24 June 2024 on nature restoration has been published today in the Official Journal of the European Union. It enters into force on 18 August 2024...

Recent natural disasters, such as the catastrophic and tragic flooding in Germany and neighbouring countries are making it increasingly difficult to ignore the new reality of ...

The CJEU delivered a significant judgment today in Eco Advocacy. Six questions were referred by the Irish High Court. The CJEU held as follows...

Following years of intense legislative effort, much political debate, trilogue negotiations between EU co-legislators and a provisional agreement, the European Union's Corporate Sustainability...

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 supplementing the EU Taxonomy Regulation (the "EU Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act")...

The Government of Ireland published the Climate Action Plan 2023, a sectoral roadmap for meeting decarbonisation targets.

Ireland moves forward with legislation to implement the EU Deforestation Regulation, introducing supply chain due diligence requirements for commodities like cattle, cocoa, coffee, and wood. The draft bill aims to ensure products placed on the Irish market are certified as deforestation-free, with enforcement beginning in December 2026.

This is the new edition of the Arthur Cox Environment & Planning Update, the monthly bulletin of the Arthur Cox Environment & Planning Group focused on recent developments in the industry sectors that we believe may be of particular interest to you including all key domestic and European news

Michelle Martin, a partner in the Environment & Planning team at William Fry is joined by planning consultant Luke Wymer to discuss the planning policy reforms proposed by the 2024 Act...

The Commission approved a €150 million Greek measure to support the construction of a carbon storage facility. The aid will take the form of a direct grant...

On 10 December 2025, the European Commission presented a package of measures to simplify environmental legislation in the areas of industrial emissions, circular economy, environmental assessments and geospatial data.

Following their adoption and publication in draft form by the European Commission last June, two new EU Taxonomy delegated acts were published in the Official Journal on 21 November...

The attention of FOI Officers is drawn to the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment)(Amendment) Regulations 2011, which were published just before Christmas, so you may have missed them in the Christmas rush!

Obligations under the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) had been due to commence from 30 December 2024.

nvironmental Delegated Act - setting out the technical screening criteria (TSC) for economic activities making a substantial contribution to the non-climate environmental objectives...

The European Commission amended State Aid rules to allow NGOs to request a review of State Aid decisions that relate to EU environmental law. This new review mechanism comes in light of the findings of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee in case ACCC/C/2015/128...

BHSL is a multi-disciplinary environmental engineering and environmental management group of businesses.

The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has published its Insurance Newsletter for September 2022. A few key highlights below.

This case concerns Member States' obligations under the Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC) ("WFD")). The CJEU determined that the EPA is not obliged...

The Government has published the Climate Action Plan 2023 ("CAP23"), a roadmap for meeting Ireland's emissions reduction requirements.