15 Amendments of Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR related to 2022/0345(COD)
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) During rainfall, storm water overflows and urban runoff represent a sizeable remaining source of pollution discharged into the environment. Those emissions are expected to increase due to the combined effects of urbanisation and progressive change of the rain regime linked with climate change. Climate change will indeed increase the likelihood of storm water overflows and urban runoff. Urban wastewater management infrastructures are therefore particularly vulnerable to climate change. Solutions to reduce that source of pollution should be defined at local level taking into account the specific local conditions and the vulnerability of these infrastuctures. They should be based on an integrated quantitative and qualitative water management in urban areas. Therefore, Member States should ensure that integrated urban wastewater management plans, including a stress test assessment of the vulnerability of collecting systems and urban wastewater treatment plants based on climate change scenarios, are established at local level for all agglomerations of 100 000 p.e. and above as those agglomerations are responsible for a significant share of the pollution emitted. Furthermore, integrated urban wastewater management plans should also be put in place for agglomeration of between 10 000 p.e. and 100 000 p.e. where storm water overflows or urban runoff poses a risk for the environment or public health.
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) Urban wastewater treatment plants also receive non-domestic wastewater, including industrial wastewater, which can contain a range of pollutants not explicitly covered by Directive 91/271/EEC, such as heavy metals, micro-plastics, micro- pollutants and other chemicals. In most instances, there is a poor understanding and knowledge of such pollution which could deteriorate the functioning of the treatment process and contribute to the pollution of the receiving waters, but also prevent the recovery of sludge and the re-use of treated wastewater. Member States should therefore regularly monitor and report on such non-domestic pollution that enters the urban wastewater treatment plants and is discharged into water bodies. To prevent pollution from non-domestic wastewater discharges at source, releases from industries or enterprises connected to collecting systems should be subject to prior authorisation. In order to ensure that collecting systems and urban wastewater treatment plants are technically capable of receiving and treating the incoming pollution, the operators who manage urban wastewater treatment plants receiving non- domestic wastewater should be consulted before those permits are issued and should be able to consult the issued permits in order to be able to adapt their treatment processes. Where non-domestic pollution is identified in the incoming waters, Member States should take appropriate measures to reduce pollution at source, by enhancing the monitoring of pollutants in collecting systems so that the pollution sources can be identified and, where necessary, by reviewing the authorisations provided to relevant, connected urban wastewater treatment plants. The water resources of the Union are increasingly under pressure, resulting in permanent or temporary water scarcity in some areas of the Union. The Union’s ability to respond to the increasing pressures on water resources could be improved through a wider reuse of treated urban wastewater, limiting freshwater abstraction from surface and groundwater bodies. Therefore, the reuse of treated urban wastewater should be encouraged and applied wheneMember states shall establish National Water Saving and Reuse Plans setting national binding water reuse and water saving objectivers appropriatecross all sectors deemed relevant, whilst taking into account the need to ensure that the objectives of good ecological and chemical status of the receiving bodies, as defined in Directive 2000/60/EC, are met. The reinforcement of the requirements for the treatment of urban wastewater, and the actions to better monitor, track and reduce pollution at source, will have impacts on the quality of treated urban wastewater, and will therefore support water reuse. Where water reuse serves the purpose of agricultural irrigation, it should be carried out in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2020/741 of the European Parliament and of the Council51. _________________ 51 Regulation (EU) 2020/741 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 2020 on minimum requirements for water reuse (OJ L 177, 5.6.2020, p. 32).
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) In order to ensure a proper implementation of this Directive and notably the respect of the emission limit values, it is important to monitor discharges of treated urban wastewater into the environment. The monitoring should be done through the establishment at national level of a mandatory prior authorisation system in order to discharge the treated urban wastewater into the environment. In addition, in order to prevent unintentional dischargecontinuously prevent accidental acute leakages and chronic diffuse leaks of plastic biomedia into the environment from urban wastewater treatment plants using this technique, it is essential to include in the discharge authorisations specific obligations to continuously monitor and prevent such discharges, notably by promoting the use of appropriate retention solutions such as grids and mesh.
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 36
Recital 36
(36) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Directive, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission for the adoption of standards for the design of individual systems, for the adoption of monitoring and assessment methods for the indicators of the quaternary treatment, for the establishment of common conditions and criteria for the application of the exoneration for certain products from extended producer responsibility, for establishing methodologies to support the development of integrated urban wastewater management plans and to measure antimicrobial resistance and micro-plastics in urban wastewater, and for the adoption of the format of, and modalities for, presenting the information to be provided by Member States and compiled by the EEA on the implementation of this Directive. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council67. The Commission shall adopt a delegated act to set requirements for the monitoring of micro-plastics in urban wastewater under article 8 point 5, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 27, 12 months after they are added on the watch list under directive 2022/0344 (COD). _________________ 67 Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13).
Amendment 324 #
(19) 'Producer Responsibility Organisation’ means an organisation established collectively by producers for the purpose ofto enable producers to fulfilling their obligations under Article 9;
Amendment 344 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 23
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 23
(23) ‘plastic biomedia’ means any plastic support used for the development of the bacteria, including but not limited to biocarriers, biobeads and polystyrene beads, needed for the treatment of urban wastewaters;
Amendment 748 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall ensure that producers referred to in paragraph 1 exercise their extended producer responsibility collectively by adhering to a producer responsibility organisation or that an established organisation enables these producers to fulfill their obligations.
Amendment 955 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall systematically promote the reuse of treated wastewater from all urban wastewater treatment plants, when there is no adverse effect for the environment and health risk management measures have been implemented.The needs for water reuse shall be assessed having regards to national river basin management plans established under the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC.Member States shall also take into consideration water quality criteria when planning reuse purposes. Where treated wastewater is reused for agricultural irrigation, it shall comply with the requirements established under Regulation (EU) 2020/741 . .
Amendment 960 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 1166 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. (ja) by December 2025, set up a data set containing information on the type and the volume (if applicable) of technologies used for biological waste treatment such as plastic biomedia, used by individual, municipal and industrial plants, and update that data set every 5 years thereafter;
Amendment 1171 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a a (new)
aa) an assessment of the state of implementation of the targets on water reuse and saving set under article 15, paragraph 1.
Amendment 1281 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 32 – paragraph 2
Article 32 – paragraph 2
2. Article 3(1) and (2) and Article 6(1) shall apply from 31 December 202730 in respect of Mayotte. Before the end of the transitional period, the Commission shall collect the information necessary to analyse the possibility of prolonging these transitional arrangements.
Amendment 1332 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex III – point 2 a (new)
Annex III – point 2 a (new)
2a. Detergents falling within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.1a _________________ 1a Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on detergents
Amendment 1338 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex V – point 1 – point b a (new)
Annex V – point 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) a stress test assessment of the vulnerability of collecting systems and urban wastewater treatment plants based on climate change scenarios;
Amendment 1359 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex V – point 3
Annex V – point 3
3. the measures to be taken to achieve the objectives referred to in point 2 and adaptation measures to climate change for the relevant infrastructures on the basis of the stress test assessment referred to in point (ba) in paragraph 1 of this Article accompanied with a clear identification of the actors involved and their responsibilities in the implantation of the integrated plan.