18/03/2022 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 17 March, the Environment Ministers of the EU Member States endorsed the EU Council’s mandate to amend EU Regulation 2019/1021 on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in order to tighten the concentration limits for these highly toxic chemical substances in waste (see EUROPE B12909A14). The changes made by the EU Council to the European Commission’s proposal mainly concern the limit values for dioxins and furans, which are present as impurities...