MEPs from the Committee on the Environment (ENVI) approved, on Wednesday 24 May, the proposal to modernise and strengthen the Industrial Emissions Directive (2010/75/EU, the so-called ‘IED’ directive) presented by the Commission in April 2022 in view of the EU’s ambition of zero toxic pollution of water, air and soil by 2050 (see EUROPE B12926A2).
By adopting (55 votes in favour, 26 against and 5 abstentions) the draft report by Radan Kanev (EPP, Bulgarian), they maintained the...