EU environment ministers welcome the October 2022 proposal to revise Directive 91/271/EEC on urban waste water treatment (see EUROPE B13051A2). However, their political debate at the Environment Council on Thursday 16 March showed that they are still struggling to agree on this text of the Zero Pollution Package, which is considered extremely demanding, with unrealistic timetables and considerable costs.
They thus confirmed the difficulties identified so far by the Swedish Presidency of...