The Council of the EU, the European Parliament and the European Commission reached a provisional agreement on Tuesday 21 June to tighten concentration limits for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in waste in order to protect human health and the environment from the most toxic chemical substances.
The text agreed by the negotiators concerns the updating of Annexes IV and V of Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 on POPs, to adapt it to the Stockholm Convention, which it transposes. It should...