Negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU Council, assisted by the Commission, failed to reach agreement on Tuesday 18 December in Brussels on the proposal to recast the EU regulation on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), chemicals that are extremely harmful to human health used in agriculture and industry.
The purpose of the recast is to align the Regulation with the Lisbon Treaty and the 2015 and 2017 amendments to the Stockholm Convention to eliminate the production, use...