The ‘general approach’ (or political agreement) expected from the EU Council on the proposed regulation on batteries and battery waste is the only formal decision expected at the meeting of EU Environment Ministers on Thursday 17 March in Brussels. This session of the Environment Council of the EU, chaired by the French Minister for Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, will otherwise be dominated by debates on the ‘Fit for 55’ package, the fight against imported deforestation in...