1 Amendments of Vittorio PRODI related to 2010/0298(COD)
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Pursuant to Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 648/2004, the Commission has evaluated the use of phosphates in detergents in the Report to the Council and the European Parliament concerning the use of phosphates6. Following further analysis, the Commission has concluded that the use of phosphates in household laundry detergents should be limited in order to reduce the contribution of phosphates from detergents to eutrophication risks and to reduce the costs of phosphates removal in waste water treatment plants. Those cost savings outweigh the cost of reformulating household laundry detergents with alternatives to phosphates. However, it is critical to implement the adoption of technologies and related equipment to recover phosphorous in order to address the problem of the scarcity of that element.