On Thursday 18 March, EU Environment Ministers welcomed the draft regulation on batteries and battery waste as an opportunity for the European Union to develop a sustainable European battery market and make progress in the transition to circular economy (see EUROPE B12620A13).
However, they overwhelmingly found the single ‘internal market’ legal basis (Article 114 TFEU) of this regulation to be inadequate, in a video conference debate (see EUROPE B12679A13, B12677A6).
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