The EU and Japan have agreed that Japan can join the Horizon Europe research program as an associated country, letting Japanese researchers apply for funding while paying a yearly fee and following rules on money and fraud.

The EU and Japan signed a deal that lets Japan join the Horizon Europe research program, giving Japanese scientists access to EU projects, requiring Japan to pay a share of the costs, and setting up joint work on science, tech, and green topics.

The European Commission’s new regulation updates fishing limits for several fish species in EU waters for 2026‑2028, using the latest science and partner talks to keep stocks healthy while not changing the EU budget.

The EU will back adding 20 animals to the most protected list and 25 to the next list in the CMS treaty, keep a request to drop one deer on hold until more info comes, and this move won’t change any EU laws.

This regulation updates EU rules on geographical indications so they match the new Lisbon Union rules, letting the EU change GI names, types, areas and quality, dropping old notification steps, and it will start on July 1, 2026.

Council Decision 2026/0029 (NLE) lets the EU submit a proposal to the Stockholm Convention to ban or restrict the dangerous flame‑retardant TBPH, protecting people and the planet.

The EU Food & Feed Safety Simplification Proposal 2025 is a new regulation that cuts paperwork, speeds up approvals, and keeps safety high, saving money for businesses and farmers.

This Directive updates EU rules on genetically modified microbes and organ processing to make approvals easier for companies and hospitals, adding new low‑risk categories, simplifying paperwork, and ensuring safety for new preservation methods.

This EU resolution simplifies and speeds up approval of plant protection products, especially natural pest‑control agents, by giving them unlimited approval periods, clearer definitions, less paperwork, faster risk checks, and digital labeling, saving billions in costs.

The European Biotech Act is a new rule that speeds up approvals, brings more money, and cuts red‑tape so EU biotech companies can develop and sell medicines and foods faster.

This new EU rule will simplify and update detergent laws to make it easier to sell products across Europe while protecting people and the planet, by tightening phosphorus limits, improving biodegradability, banning animal tests, easing paperwork, and giving companies more time to adapt.