The suggestion of the rapporteur for the opinion, Jan Huitema (ALDE, Netherlands), that advantage should be taken of the evaluation of the proposal on fertilisers to amend Directive 91/676/EEC on the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates brought criticism in the European Parliament’s agriculture committee on Wednesday 12 April (see EUROPE 11542).
Parliament’s internal market and consumer protection committee is the responsible committee on the proposal revising the...