A second round of interinstitutional negotiations between the Council of the EU and the European Parliament was held on Thursday 24 April on the Green Claims Directive, which aims to combat greenwashing by obliging companies to specify their claims concerning the environmental footprint of their products and services (see EUROPE B13567A13).
Preliminary agreements have been reached on most of the items on the agenda, namely: rules on the substantiation of claims, rules on how to communicate...