P9_TA(2024)0222 – Urban wastewater treatment – European Parliament legislative resolution of 10 April 2024 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning urban wastewater treatment (recast) (COM(2022)0541 – C9-0363/2022 – 2022/0345(COD)) (Ordinary legislative procedure – recast)
Date: 2024-04-10
Institutions: Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Committee on Legal Affairs, Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety, European Parliament
Subjects: environmental protection, industrial pollution, pollution control measures, public health, urban area, wastewater, water pollutant, water pollution, water treatment




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C/2025/1330


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P9_TA(2024)0222

Urban wastewater treatment


European Parliament legislative resolution of 10 April 2024 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning urban wastewater treatment (recast) (COM(2022)0541 – C9-0363/2022 – 2022/0345(COD))


(Ordinary legislative procedure – recast)

(C/2025/1330)



The European Parliament,







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having regard to the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2022)0541),










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having regard to Article 294(2) and Article 192(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C9-0363/2022),










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having regard to Article 294(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,










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having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 22 February 2023
                   (1),










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having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions of 6 July 2023
                   (2),










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having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 28 November 2001 on a more structured use of the recasting technique for legal acts (3),










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having regard to the letter of 14 September 2023 sent by the Committee on Legal Affairs to the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety in accordance with Rule 110(3) of its Rules of Procedure,










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having regard to the provisional agreement approved by the committee responsible under Rule 74(4) of its Rules of Procedure and the undertaking given by the Council representative by letter of 1 March 2024 to approve Parliament’s position, in accordance with Article 294(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,










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having regard to Rules 110 and 59 of its Rules of Procedure,










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having regard to the opinion of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development,










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having regard to the report of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A9-0276/2023),










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whereas, according to the Consultative Working Party of the legal services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, the Commission proposal does not include any substantive amendments other than those identified as such in the proposal and whereas, as regards the codification of the unchanged provisions of the earlier acts together with those amendments, the proposal contains a straightforward codification of the existing texts, without any change in their substance;











1.


Adopts its position at first reading hereinafter set out (4), taking into account the recommendations of the Consultative Working Party of the legal services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission;










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Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it replaces, substantially amends or intends to substantially amend its proposal;










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Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.






(1)  
            OJ C 146, 27.4.2023, p. 35.

(2)  
            OJ C, C/2023/250, 26.10.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2023/250/oj


(3)  
            OJ C 77, 28.3.2002, p. 1.

(4)  This position replaces the amendments adopted on 5 October 2023 (Texts adopted, P9_TA(2023)0355).






P9_TC1-COD(2022)0345


Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 10 April 2024 with a view to the adoption of Directive (EU) 2024/… of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning urban wastewater treatment (recast)



(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position corresponds to the final legislative act, Directive (EU) 2024/3019.)




ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/1330/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)