EU: Report on EU Waste Framework Directive transpositions

23 January 2015

Preventing waste is a top priority of waste policy in the European Union with potential economic and environmental benefits. A new European Environment Agency (EEA) report reviews the state of play in the EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
The EEA report ‘Waste prevention in Europe’ shows that by the end of 2013, 18 of 31 countries had adopted waste prevention programmes as required by the EU Waste Framework Directive. These programmes show considerable differences in detail, coverage, objectives and time horizon. The findings suggest that the variety of national initiatives leaves substantial room for improvement (News Item EEA, 17 December 2014).
Click here for the news item.
Click here for the report (2.14 MB).

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