Air emissions and sustainable transport

Key developments

This sub-topic contains the following trackers covering key developments relating to air emissions and transport emissions:

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EU Environment—horizon scanner — Air emissions and sustainable transport—this Practice Note is a horizon scanner tracking key future developments in EU environmental law. It provides details of key dates for your diary (including forecasted dates where possible) and relevant commentary in relation to legislation-in-progress, legislation subject to future application dates or transposition deadlines, new consultations and calls for evidence, forthcoming guidance, and new EU-level strategies and action plans
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EU Environment—key developments tracker — Air emissions and sustainable transport—this Practice Note tracks key past developments in EU environmental law. It provides details of key events and relevant commentary relating to finalised legislation and other key developments, including published guidance and EU-level strategies and action plans. This tracker covers legislative developments from 2025 onwards.

Air emissions—EU legal and policy framework

Poor air quality is a major health risk, which also causes environmental and economic impacts. Air pollution also damages materials and buildings, and some air pollutants behave like greenhouse gases that cause

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Commission preliminarily finds TikTok breached Digital Services Act over addictive design

The European Commission has preliminarily found that TikTok breached the Digital Services Act (EU DSA) due to its addictive design, citing features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications and its highly personalised recommender system, which the Commission says fuel compulsive behaviour and weaken users’ self control, particularly among minors and vulnerable adults. It states that TikTok failed to adequately assess risks to users’ physical and mental wellbeing and disregarded indicators of compulsive use, including minors’ night time screen activity and the frequency with which users open the app. The Commission further considers that TikTok has not implemented reasonable, proportionate or effective risk mitigation measures, noting that existing screentime and parental control tools are easy to dismiss, introduce limited friction and require additional time and skills from parents. At this stage, the Commission suggests that TikTok must change the basic design of its service, such as by disabling key addictive features like infinite scroll over time, implementing effective screen time breaks and adapting its recommender system, and confirms that these findings do not prejudge the final outcome. TikTok may now exercise its right to defence by examining the investigation files and responding in writing, while the European Board for Digital Services will be consulted before any final non-compliance decision, which could lead to a fine of up to 6% of TikTok’s worldwide annual turnover.

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Commission launches call for evidence on Forced Labour Regulation guidelines

The European Commission has launched a call for evidence to support the preparation of guidelines required under Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2024/3015 (Forced Labour Regulation) (FLR) which entered into force on 13 December 2024 and will apply from 14 December 2027 aiming to prevent products made with forced labour from being placed on or exported from the EU market. The consultation seeks stakeholder input on investigations, evidence, documentation, due diligence and remediation to help shape guidance for competent authorities, economic operators and civil society ensuring the FLR is applied consistently across the EU. The forthcoming guidelines, due by 14 June 2026, are intended to promote consistent, effective and low burden implementation by clarifying responsibilities, supporting capacity building and enhancing transparency and accountability thereby enabling a predictable and smooth functioning of the FLR’s framework. The Commission plans to group the guidelines into three categories covering practical implementation by authorities, due diligence expectations for businesses and information submission processes for civil society and victims with targeted consultations across Q1–Q2 2026.

Commission issues objections to Meta for restricting third‑party AI assistants on WhatsApp

The European Commission has issued a Statement of Objections to Meta, setting out its preliminary view that Meta breached EU antitrust rules by excluding third‑party Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants from WhatsApp after updating its WhatsApp Business Solution Terms on 15 October 2025, which resulted in only Meta AI being available on the platform from 15 January 2026. The Commission considers Meta likely to be dominant in the European Economic Area (EEA) market for consumer communication applications and preliminarily finds that refusing access to WhatsApp for competing general‑purpose AI assistants may amount to an abuse of this dominant position, creating barriers to entry and risking serious and irreparable damage to competition in the rapidly growing AI assistants market. It intends to impose interim measures subject to Meta’s reply and rights of defence, noting that the Statement of Objections, which covers the EEA except Italy where the Italian Competition Authority imposed interim measures in December 2025, does not prejudge the investigation opened on 4 December 2025, and that interim measures may be adopted under Article 8(1) of Regulation 1/2003 if conditions are met.