The outgoing Estonian Presidency of the Council of the EU and European Parliament negotiators led by Simona Bonafé (S&D, Italy), assisted by the European Commission, reached a provisional inter-institutional agreement on Monday morning 18 December on revision of the waste directives.
A Sunday and a night proved enough to overcome the last outstanding issues in this legislative package that is crucial to the EU’s action plan on the circular economy that was presented in December 2015. The...