Commission drops bid for paper end-of-waste criteria

摘要

The EU Commission has permanently abandoned its quest to pass a Regulation defining end-of-waste criteria for recovered paper. "At the moment, the Commission has no plans to take this initiative any further," said EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik in February in response to a parliamentary question posed by the Italian MEP Mara Bizzotto (Lega Nord). In the question filed at the beginning of last December, Ms Bizzotto expressed reservations with regard to the Commission's proposed regulation, which at that time was under review by the Parliament. A week later, it was rejected by the Parliament.