The progress made on revision of the waste directives in the circular economy package was briefly discussed by EU environment ministers in Brussels on Monday 19 December at the last Environment Council to be chaired by Slovakia (see EUROPE 11692).
The outgoing Presidency gave a status report on this central plank of the action plan adopted in December 2015 to promote sustainable economic growth, job creation and European competitiveness by shifting from a linear to a genuinely circular...