The environment ministers of the EU-27, who will meet on Thursday 18 March by videoconference, will hold a policy debate on the proposal for a regulation on sustainable batteries, which was presented in December in order to achieve the objective of climate neutrality by 2050, and to boost the European battery sector (see EUROPE B12620A13).
As the first piece of legislation in the new circular economy action plan, this proposal – which is based on a life-cycle approach – is close to the...