Gathered in the REACH Committee on Thursday, 3 September, experts from Member States approved—by qualified majority, including Germany—the proposal to restrict the use of lead shot in wetlands and to ban it within 2 years.
Expected to take place in July, this vote had been postponed (see EUROPE B12549A18) after years of deadlock on the issue within the German government.
“The minister of Agriculture, Julia Klöckner, made Germany vote for the ban. Otherwise, she would have lost...