Negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU Council, assisted by the Commission, will meet on Tuesday 19 February at 5 p.m. in the hope of reaching an interinstitutional agreement on the recast of the European Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) - chemicals used in agriculture and industry that are extremely harmful to human health.
The recast aims to align the Regulation with the Lisbon Treaty and the 2015 and 2017 amendments to the Stockholm Convention to eliminate the production, use and export of POPs.
On Friday 15 February, the Romanian Presidency of the Council obtained a mandate from the 28 Member States' ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) to resume negotiations that had failed by little under the Austrian Presidency in December (see EUROPE 12163).
This trilogue could be conclusive. Only the nature of the powers that will be conferred on Parliament to amend this legislation and its annexes through comitology remains to be decided - delegated acts (as the Parliament wanted, then empowered, like the Council, to revoke the delegation or raise objections within two months of adoption by the Commission) or implementing acts in which it does not generally intervene. (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)