On Friday 1 March, the Member States’ ambassadors to the EU (‘Coreper’) approved the interinstitutional agreement reached by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on 29 January on the modernisation of the 30-year-old Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive.
During the second round of inter-institutional negotiations (‘trilogue’), the European Parliament and the Council of the EU agreed, among other things, to extend the obligation, by 2035, to set up urban wastewater...