The European Parliament and the EU Council reached, on Monday 29 January, a provisional agreement on the modernisation of the 30-year-old Directive 91/271/EEC on urban wastewater treatment.
The second session of interinstitutional negotiations (trilogue) led to the result on this new directive, which aims to combat residual wastewater pollution, extend water treatment to small municipalities, reduce the energy consumption of wastewater treatment plants and introduce a system of extended...