EEB input to the EU Environment Council Meeting, Brussels, 27 March 2025

In this letter, the EEB provided input to the EU Environment Council Meeting, Brussels, 27 March 2025, addressing all Environment Ministers of EU Member States, the Commission President, Executive Vice-President for the Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, and Commissioners for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy, Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth, Energy and Housing, Health and Animal Welfare, and the Chair of the European Parliament Environment Committee.

The EEB’s demands come structured according to our understanding of the 27 March Council Agenda, alongside our vision of what is needed for a sustainable and resilient Union, under the following headlines:

1. Environmental dimension of the Clean Industrial Deal
2. Global environmental policies
3. Resumed session of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 16.2)
4. Ministerial lunch on “Environmental dimension of the Vision for agriculture and food”
5. AOB: EC proposal to change the protection status of the wolf in the Habitats Directive

The EEB provided further inputs in Annex 1: The Cost of Inaction: Why Environmental Standards Are Key to EU Competitiveness.