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German Industry Concerned It Will Be Hung Out To Dry By EU Wastewater Directive

 
• By David Ridley

The revised EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive, which obliges pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries to contribute at least 80% towards the costs of removing micropollutants from wastewater through quaternary treatments, will place an additional burden of around €2bn per year on German manufacturers, says Pharma Deutschland. 

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National industries will be placed between a rock and a hard place by the incoming, revised EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD), German pharmaceutical industry association Pharma Deutschland has warned.

A survey by the association has found that Germans want industry to bear the burden of costs for removing micropollutants from wastewater, as set out by the UWWTD – which could reach billions of

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