EU environment ministers adopted, on Thursday 16 March, the EU Council’s position (a general approach) on the proposal to modernise and strengthen the Industrial Emissions Directive (2010/75/EU, the so-called ‘IED’ Directive) to facilitate the transition to the circular economy by 2030 and the ‘zero pollution’ ambition for EU water, air and soil by 2050.
After several hours of final negotiations between experts, the last reservations of certain Member States regarding a...