The Committee of the Regions (CoR) is drafting an opinion on the 4 legislative proposals amending EU waste directives, which the European Commission adopted 2 December 2015.
The rapporteur on the opinion, Mr Domenico GAMBACORTA (IT/EPP), President of the Province of Avellino in Italy, would like to invite representatives of local and regional associations and other stakeholders for a consultation and an exchange of views on the relevant topic of this opinion.
The consultation will take place on:
Tuesday 23 February 2016 between 15.00 and 17.00
in the Committee of the Regions building
(Rue Belliard 99-101, B-1040 Brussels)
Room JDE 70
The CoR Opinion is reacting to the legislative proposals of the European Commission which amend the Directives 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles, 2006/66/EC on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators, and 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment (proposal COM(2015) 593 final), the Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste (proposal COM(2015) 594 final), the Directive 2008/98/EC on waste (proposal COM(2015) 595 final) and the Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste (proposal COM(2015) 596 final).
After a short introduction by the rapporteur, the rapporteur would be very keen to hear your views during the meeting. Participants will still receive prior to the meeting the first working document of the rapporteur in English.
In addition, if you have any position papers on the waste review, you are welcome to send them to us by e-mail using the address below.
The meeting will have English and Italian simultaneous interpreting. Please note that the rapporteur's mother tongue is Italian.
For practical reasons, you are kindly asked to register your participation before 11.00 a.m. on Monday, 22 February 2016 via the following link.
For more information, please contact Ms Susanna Sjöström, Tel: +32 2 546 83 58, email: enve@cor.europa.eu
Please note that in order to reduce paper waste, the CoR will not provide paper copies of documents for the meeting.
