30/01/26 (Agence Europe) – On Friday, 30 January, the European Commission announced the that it had opened an in-depth investigation into a Danish scheme in the wastewater treatment sector with the aim of examining whether companies that use a lot of water have an undue advantage in breach of the European Union’s State aid rules. Since 2013, Denmark has applied a degressive charge for wastewater treatment that is based on the volume of wastewater discharged (‘staircase model’),...