On Wednesday 23 July, the Permanent Representatives of the Member States to the EU approved the EU Council’s position on one of the ’Omnibus IV’ texts recently proposed by the European Commission (see EUROPE B13645A2). The directive aims to rationalise and digitalise the obligations of economic operators within the framework of thirteen other directives adopted between 2000 and 2014. These concern the harmonisation of rules on hazardous substances, noise emissions from equipment,...