EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Environment

European Parliament ensures that EU Council and Commission will do everything possible to ensure compliance with Water legislation by 2027

Brussels, 15/12/2020 (Agence Europe)

Ahead of the vote on a resolution that will call on Member States to raise the bar so that by 2027, at the latest, all surface and groundwater in the European Union reaches “good status”, the European Parliament ensured on Tuesday 15 December that the EU Council and the Commission will do their part (see EUROPE B12552A8).

The draft resolution has broad agreement between political groups, in the hope that the serious shortcomings in the implementation of the Water Framework Directive,...