The EU Council reached, on Monday 18 December, a political agreement (‘general approach’) on the proposal for a regulation on packaging and packaging waste, which aims to tackle the constant growth of this waste by imposing binding targets for the reduction of packaging, prevention of its production, re-use, high-quality recycling and the creation of an internal market for secondary raw materials (see EUROPE B13074A7).
In addition to the derogations prepared over the weekend and...