Media advisory - Environment Council of 17 June 2025

Indicative programme

All times are approximate and subject to change

Place:
ECCL building, Luxembourg

Chairs:
Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Minister for Climate and Environment

Tuesday, 17 June

from 09.00
Arrivals (live streaming)

+/- 09.15
Doorstep by Paulina Hennig-Kloska (live streaming)

10.00
Beginning of the Environment Council
Adoption of the agenda
Approval of 'A' items:

• legislative list (public session)
• Non-legislative list

+/- 10.10
Regulation on circularity requirements for vehicle design and on
management of end-of-life vehicles (public session)

Any other business:
- Report on a main recent international meeting: Triple Conference of the Parties to the Basel (COP 17), Rotterdam (COP 12) and Stockholm (COP 12) Conventions (+/- 11.40 public session)
- Outcomes of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference (+/- 11.50 public session)
- Water resilience (+/-12.00 public session)
- Ban on lead in ammunition and fishing tackle under the REACH Regulation (+/-12.20 public session)
- Circularity and recycling industry - support for recyclers in the current economic context (+/- 12.30 public session)

+/- 12.45
Working lunch

+/- 14.30
The EU at COP30 - stocktake and road ahead

Any other business:
- Assessment of the final national energy and climate plans (+/- 16.00 (public session)
- Work programme of the incoming Presidency
- Report on the MED9 Ministerial Meeting of Energy and Environment Ministers (+/- 16.20 (public session)
- Launch preparatory study of a delegated act on switchgears (+/- 16.30 (public session)

At the end of the meeting (+/- 16.55) press conference in live streaming.

Arrangements for the press conferences

The press conferences will take place in a hybrid format: EU accredited journalists will be able to participate and ask questions either remotely or in person at the ECCL Luxembourg press room.

To attend the event remotely, please use this link to register and have the possibility to ask questions.

Those who already registered for previous press events of the Environment Council do not need to do it again.

• Deadline for registration: Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 16.00

Further instructions will be sent to all registered participants shortly after the deadline.

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