The European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Health and Food Safety (ENVI) has significantly strengthened the proposed December 2020 EU regulation on batteries and battery waste, which aims to boost the circular economy by covering the entire life cycle of batteries and to foster the EU’s strategic autonomy by developing a genuine European market for sustainable batteries.
The amended report by Simona Bonafè (S&D, Italy) (see EUROPE B12811A4) was adopted on Thursday...