Norwegian Environment Agency

Norway welcomes and support the EU Commissionss proposal for a regulation on packaging and packaging waste. We appreciate the opportunity to share our view concerning the following two aspects of the proposal, namely the proposal oncompostable very lightweight plastic carrier bags and harmonised symbols.

Norwegian Environment Agency welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the Proposal for a Directive, amending Directive 2008/98/EC on waste. Please find attached our comments. Our key input is: Regarding food waste: o Member states should have the possibility to use an earlier reference year than 2020, in case they have started targeted national work to cut food waste prior to this year.

Separate collection of waste Norway supports the EU's plans and the focus of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) regarding increased recycling of waste and high quality of secondary raw materials. In our view, however, it is unfortunate to have an overly narrow focus on separate collection of waste, when striving to meet these goals.

Have Your Say, SPI 2022 Norwegian Environment Agency, 22 June 2022 Norway is highly supportive of the Sustainable Products Initiative (SPI) as a key factor driving the transition to a more circular economy and thereby reducing the climate and environmental footprint of products. This ambitious endeavour will also support our national transition as Norway has a high consumption rate based on imported products.

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We support the proposal to amend the CLP regulation with the aim of strengthening and simplifying the legal framework for chemicals to ensure a toxic-free environment. CLP should remain the main instrument for identifying and communicating hazardous properties of substances and mixtures. We propose that the new formatting requirements for label elements specifies the size of the font in millimeters.

Contact person: [name removed] [name removed] uploaded on the EU Commission website Have Your Say Oslo, 01/06/2021 Norwegian comments on the Inception impact assessment for revision of EU legislation on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP) We thank the Commission for this Inception Impact Assessment on the revision on CLP and the possibility to provide views on this.

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Submission from the Norwegian Environment Agency on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on speeding up environmental assessments 5 May 2026 General comments from The Norwegian Environment Agency The Norwegian Environment Agency welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on speeding up…

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Oslo, 17.01.2024 Ref. Ares(2024)368478 - 17/01/2024 Contact person: [name removed] Response from the Norwegian Environment Agency to the European Commission's proposal on a new regulation to prevent plastic pellets losses General comment: Norway welcomes the proposal to regulate microplastics unintentionally released into the environment in the form of plastic pellets.

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Feedback from the Norwegian Environment Agency on the call for evidence for an impact assessment on the initiative: Measures aiming to reduce the presence in the environment of unintentionally added microplastics from tires, textiles, and plastic pellets , Submitted January 18, 2022 Norway has recognized the challenges in preventing and reducing marine plastic litter and microplastics for several years and supports…

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Advanced materials are in many cases different from classical chemicals. We see that there is a risk that not all relevant concerns are properly controlled in the current legislation, and this should be addressed in the impact assessment. It is important with timely and appropriate measures assuring legal clarity, safety, trust, competitiveness and to avoid harm from advanced materials.

Comments from the Norwegian Environment Agency 11. September 2025 Legislative initiative on CO2 transportation infrastructure and markets We welcome the European Commission’s initiative on CO2 market and infrastructure in the EU.

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Norway welcomes a revision of the Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR) and appreciates the opportunity to give feedback on the roadmap. Norway fully supports the initiative to improve the WSR relative to the ongoing Circular Economy Action Plan of the EU Commission. Increased use of waste as a secondary raw material is essential in the transition towards a circular economy.

European Commission Directorate-General for Environment 1049 Brussel BELGIUM Your ref.: COM(2022) 542 final 2022/0347 (COD) Oslo, 14.03.2023 Our ref. (incl. when replying): 2014/3343 Case officer: Scott Randall Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the council on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe Feedback from the Norwegian Environment Agency The Norwegian Environment Agency has…

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Comments from the Norwegian Environment Agency on behalf of the Norwegian authorities to the Commission's proposal for a regulation establishing a common data platform on chemicals We welcome the proposed regulation establishing a common data platform on chemicals, laying down rules to ensure that the data contained in it are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable and establishing a monitoring and outlook…

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We welcome the initiative for better access to chemicals data for safety assessments. There is a great potential for increasing re-use of data and transparency across different regulatory processes dealing with safety assessment of chemicals. We would be grateful to be included in the targeted stakeholder consultation.

We support the reattribution of scientific and technical tasks to the ECHA under the RoHS directive. ECHA would be a neutral and highly competent party, but would need allocated resources to perform this specific task. It must be ensured that transferring this work to ECHA will not hamper the exemption request process. Oslo, 3 April 2024. Norwegian Environment Agency on behalf of the Norwegian authorities.

The planned re-attribution of scientific and technical work to EU agencies is key to fulfil the ambitions of the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability, and also the Zero Pollution Action Plan and the Circular Economy Action Plan. Re-attribution of tasks to EU-agencies will contribute to increased transparency, harmonisation, coherence and efficiency of assessment of chemicals.

Norway supports the development of a "one substance, one assessment" (1S1A) approach under the CSS. The 1S1A initiative addresses needs for coordination of scientific assessment of chemicals as described in CSS. A main goal of the changes in legislation in all fields affected by OSOA should be to ensure that the level of protection for the human health and the environment remains high.

The Norwegian Environment Agency welcomes the European Commissions initiative to identify products, components, and waste streams with significant potential for the recovery of critical raw materials (CRMs). Need for Clear and Harmonised Definitions: To ensure that the list can serve as a practical and effective reference for national-level implementation, we believe that further clarification is needed.