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

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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