This fact sheet explains how EU rules on chemicals and pesticides protect human health and the environment while facilitating trade. These rules cover chemical products, hazardous substances, accident prevention and...
This fact sheet explains how EU competition policy helps keep the internal market open and fair. It outlines the legal basis, main objectives and key tools: antitrust, merger control, State...
This fact sheet explains the EU’s water policy and the key role it plays in preserving the environment, supported by legislation that safeguards water sources and both freshwater and marine...
This fact sheet explains the purpose of the EU PEACEPLUS cross-border programme. This funding instrument supports peace and reconciliation and promotes social, economic and regional stability and cooperation in Northern...
The European Union (EU) is the heaviest-drinking area in the world. In 2019, the average total per-capita consumption among adults in the EU was 11 litres of pure alcohol, roughly...
This fact sheet explains the evolution of EU policies to combat poverty, social exclusion and discrimination. At the end of the 1990s, combating social exclusion was enshrined as a policy...
This fact sheet explains the EU’s asylum policy. The aim of the EU’s asylum policy is to grant appropriate status to any non-EU national requiring international protection in one of...
The EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) establishes a broad but residual framework for crypto-assets not already covered by existing EU financial legislation, combining rules for stablecoins with a wider...
This fact sheet explains the history, procedure and future perspectives of the EU’s enlargement policy. Accession negotiations and chapters have been opened with Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and Türkiye. North Macedonia...
This fact sheet explains how the EU organises and supports its agricultural markets. It mainly focuses on the rules of the common market organisation (CMO) for different types of farm...
