Food waste: Test run for citizen partici • Table.Briefings

The EU Commission is revising the Waste Framework Directive in the food and textiles sectors. It plans to present a draft in early June. For the first time, the consultation process will also include recommendations from a citizens’ panel – a result of the Conference on the Future of Europe.

By 2025, member states are to ensure that 55 percent of their residential waste is recycled or reused. The Commission already warned last year that more than half of the EU-27 are running the risk of falling short of the targets set out in the EU’s Waste Framework Directive. It has already been working for a year on the impact assessment for a revision of the directive; according to the current agenda, it intends to present its proposal on June 7. The focus here is on the food and textiles sectors.

Food waste: Test run for citizen participation in legislation

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