Joint letter – Amendments to the EU Detergent Regulation
A group of seventeen NGOs wrote to the European Parliament's ENVI committee with recommendations for the ongoing revision of the Detergent Regulation. This is an important opportunity to improve requirements for detergents and minimise harmful effects on human health and the environment.
Unfortunately, the European Commission’s proposal (April 2023), was lacking in many areas. We are encouraged that the rapporteur’s draft report improves upon several important points and additional amendments have been submitted on environmental priorities.
The co-signatories of this letter support the draft report by the ENVI committee along with the amendments proposed in the letter below. We urge legislators to adopt an ambitious text to improve water quality, protect human health, and decrease intentional and unintentional microplastic release. Any sustainability issues which cannot be addressed in this regulation must be tackled with mandatory requirements in the upcoming ecodesign measures for detergents to be adopted under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation.
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