The European Commission (EC) has come under fire for failing to adopt delegated acts, specifying the criteria to include relevant species in the list of Union concern and the methodology to be applied in the risk assessment.

Four month after the release of the Commission mid-term review on its EU Biodiversity Strategy, assessing whether the EU is on track for achieving the objective of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2020, the European Parliament adopted its resolution on the Commission review.