The day before the European Parliament’s vote on the proposed Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, negotiations between the political groups were in full swing, reflecting, as did the debate in plenary session on Tuesday 21 November, the desire of MEPs to reconcile environmental ambitions with the practicality of the most hotly debated regulation in recent weeks.
On Tuesday evening, the voting list was not yet available and, of the 530 amendments tabled, those in the compromise...