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Treating urban wastewater to remove harmful components is essential to protect human health as well as rivers, lakes and seas. During the October I plenary session, the European Parliament is expected to adopt its position on a European Commission proposal that seeks to reinforce existing rules, adopted more than 30 years ago, and to bring them into line with the EU's climate neutrality, circularity and zero pollution ambitions.

Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 on persistent organic pollutants (POPs Regulation) aims at eliminating or restricting production and use of these toxic substances and their release into the air, water and soil, and regulating waste containing or contaminated by them. The POPs Regulation implements EU commitments under international legal acts such as the Stockholm Convention on POPs. On 28 October 2021, the European Commission adopted a legislative proposal to review Annexes IV and V on waste management ...

Kemikaale käsitlevate ELi õigusaktide eesmärk on kaitsta inimtervist ja keskkonda ning vältida kaubandustõkkeid. Nad koosnevad teatavate keemiatoodete kategooriate turustamist ja kasutamist reguleerivatest eeskirjadest, konkreetsete ohtlike ainete ja valmististe turulelaskmise ja kasutamise ühtlustatud piirangute kogumist ning suurõnnetusi ja ohtlike ainete eksporti käsitlevatest eeskirjadest. Peamine sellealane ELi tasandi saavutus on REACHi määrus, millega reguleeritakse selliste ainete registreerimist ...

This study was commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Petitions (PETI). Lindane and technical-HCH were extensively produced in the EU until the 1990s and used as a broad spectrum insecticide until 2008. The use and production of lindane is now banned in most countries around the world. However, it unfortunately continues to make itself known. Its persistence, bioacumulative and toxic properties ...