On Tuesday 12 September, the European Parliament voted in favour of regularly updating the list of new dangerous pollutants to be more strictly controlled in order to better protect the EU’s freshwater and groundwater from toxic pollution, in the interests of the environment and public health (see EUROPE B13051A2).
In October 2022, the European Commission proposed to carry out this regular update and to amend water legislation accordingly - the Framework Directive and two ‘daughter’...