At the end of a meeting of the EU Council’s working party of environment experts on Friday 28 November, a qualified majority of Member States does not seem likely to be achieved in order to move forward with negotiations on the ‘green claims’ directive, aimed at combating greenwashing.
This standstill comes after the European Commission threatened in the summer to scrap the proposal, but then changed its mind (see EUROPE B13665A11).
Following the Commission’s initial change of...