Focus on EU waste legislation Agreement reached on a new Framework DirectiveJune 27th, 2024
FiledJune 27th, 2024Although the gap between the opinions of the Council and the European Parliament’s Environment Committee regarding the revision of the Waste Framework Directive almost seemed impossible to reconcile, on 17 June 2008 the European Parliament finally gave its green light to a second-reading agreement with the Council. The European institutions found a compromise, including on the most pending topic of the debate: the inclusion of targets.