The European Parliament committee on the environment welcomes the EU strategy on plastics as a step forward in the transition towards a circular economy. However, in Brussels on Tuesday 10 July, it was far more ambitious than the European Commission when, with an overwhelming majority (51 votes to 1, with no abstentions), it adopted the report by Mark Demesmaeker (EPP, Belgium) on this strategy (see EUROPE 12048, 11974).
With its vote, the parliamentary committee above all called on the...