Mining waste pollution: MEPs to urge EU countries to enforce EU rules
EU countries are failing to enact and enforce EU rules to halt mining waste pollution of soil and water, MEPs warn in a resolution to be voted on Thursday.
EU rules to prevent soil and water pollution caused by major accidents involving the spillage of hazardous extractive waste, like those in Spain and Romania in 1998 and 2000, are not being properly enacted or enforced by EU countries, warn MEPs.
MEPs reiterate their call on the EU Commission and member states to transpose the EU Mining Waste Directive into their national laws and enforce them.
Note for editors
Waste originating from the quarrying and mining industries makes up a very large proportion of the total volume of waste produced in the European Union (approximately 30% in 2012), part of which is hazardous waste.
Procedure: non-legislative resolution
Vote: Thursday 27 April 2017
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