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Doctoral thesis defense “Prevention of illegal trafficking of plastic waste in Catalonia: compliance programs as a tool for prevention and criminal liability of legal entities”

Last Friday, November 21, Ivan Hortigüela, INSTA lawyer, successfully defended his doctoral thesis, entitled "The prevention of illegal trafficking in plastic waste in Catalonia: compliance programs as a tool for prevention and criminal liability of legal entities", obtaining the qualification of excellent "cum laude" unanimously by the Court. This doctoral thesis has been developed jointly [...]

2025-12-15T08:09:49+00:00December 15th, 2025|Investigació, News, Waste|

European Union approves regulation to prevent losses of plastic pellets

The Council of the European Union adopted on September 22, 2025, following a provisional agreement with the European Parliament, the Regulation aimed at preventing the loss of plastic pellets - also known as nurdles -throughout the supply chain, in order to reduce microplastic pollution.   A key step in the European policy of "zero pollution". [...]

2025-10-28T08:37:05+00:00October 28th, 2025|News, Waste|

Ivan Hortigüela wins the competition for the Waste 0 Ideas Generation Program

Ivan Hortigüela Bolsa, INSTA's lawyer specializing in Environmental Law, has been part of the winning team in the competition for the 13th edition of the Idea Generation Program of the Research Park of the Autonomous University of Barcelona held on 12 May . The project of the team proposes the identification and classification of the [...]

2022-05-17T06:44:05+00:00May 17th, 2022|News, Waste|

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