| Teaser Text | Dr Caroline Jackson, European Parliament rapporteur on the Landfill and Waste Framework Directives, and chairman of the Institute for European Environment Policy, looks at EU waste legislation and the problem of compliance
The European Commission will soon be publishing the results of a feasibility study being carried out for it by the Belgian consultancy, Milieu, into the case for establishing a European Waste Implementation Agency. It is heartening that the Commission is grasping this nettle. In its own words: “Waste is one of the two areas of the EC environmental acquis subject to the highest number of complaints, petitions, parliamentary questions and infringement cases.” The other is nature protection legislation. |
