EU FINISHERS FACE TOUGHER INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS DIRECTIVE AND ASSOCIATED NEW BEST AVAILABLE TECHNIQUES GUIDANCE

With European textile finishers keeping a close eye on sustainability rules being developed by the European Union (EU), the fact that the EU Council of Ministers on March 16 (2023) struck agreement (1) on European Commission proposals (2) for reforming the EU industrial emissions directive will require particularly careful attention. This important directive was last updated in 2010 (3) and the reform comes as the European Commission in December (2022), working under the existing directive, approved new detailed industrial emissions controls for the EU textile ...


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