Directive (EU) 2024/30192022/0345(COD)COM(2022)541ENVI

Urban wastewater treatment. Recast

Urban wastewater treatment (recast)

Stage: In force, reached 12 Dec 2024
In force: In force since 1 Jan 2025 · CELEX 32024L3019
Transposition deadline: 31 Jul 2027
Procedure: Ordinary legislative procedure
Rapporteur: Nils Torvalds (Renew)
Lead DG: DG ENV
Commissioner: Virginijus Sinkevičius
Last activity: 12 Dec 2024

38 entries · record as of 14 Sept 2026

Where it stands

Latest: Published in the Official Journal, 12 Dec 2024.

Show the earlier record: 20 dates, 8 Sept 2020 to 13 Oct 2023

8 Sept 2020
- Inception impact assessment closed: Revision of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive, 57 responses · Commission
21 Jul 2021
- Public consultation closed: Revision of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive, 285 responses · Commission
27 Oct 2022
- Adoption of legislative proposal by the Commission
31 Oct 2022
- Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
19 Jan 2023
- Referred to committee
10 Feb 2023
- Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
27 Feb 2023
- Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
14 Mar 2023
- Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
- Feedback on adopted proposal closed: Revision of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive, 102 responses · Commission
21 Mar 2023
- Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
22 Mar 2023
- Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
27 Mar 2023
- Committee report tabled
- EP committee draft report
23 May 2023
- Committee opinion adopted
6 Jun 2023
- Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
30 Jun 2023
- Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
7 Sept 2023
- Committee opinion adopted
20 Sept 2023
- Committee report adopted
26 Sept 2023
- Tabled for plenary
5 Oct 2023
- EP decision on amendments to the legislative proposal
- Plenary vote
- Plenary amended the proposal
- Debate in plenary
- Referred back to committee for interinstitutional negotiations
10 Oct 2023
- Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
13 Oct 2023
- Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies

16 Oct 2023
- Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
- General approach by the Council
1 Mar 2024
- Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
- Endorsement of the provisional agreement by Coreper
11 Mar 2024
- Committee approved the provisional agreement
10 Apr 2024
- EP position at first reading
- Plenary amended the proposal
- Plenary vote
18 Jun 2024
- Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
5 Nov 2024
- Approval of the EP's first reading position by the Council (adoption of the legislative act)
27 Nov 2024
- Signed
12 Dec 2024
- Published in the Official Journal

9 people

Who is on it

The Parliament's rapporteurs, shadow rapporteurs and opinion rapporteurs currently on this file.

Role	Name	Group	Country	Committee
Rapporteur	Nils Torvalds	Renew	FI	ENVI
Shadow rapporteur	Danilo Oscar Lancini	PfE	IT	ENVI
Shadow rapporteur	Deirdre Clune	EPP	IE	ENVI
Shadow rapporteur	Marek Paweł Balt	S&D	PL	ENVI
Shadow rapporteur	Margrete Auken	Greens/EFA	DK	ENVI
Shadow rapporteur	Nikolaj Villumsen	The Left	DK	ENVI
Shadow rapporteur	Pietro Fiocchi	ECR	IT	ENVI
Rapporteur for opinion	Jan Huitema	Renew	NL	AGRI
Rapporteur for opinion	Magdalena Adamowicz	EPP	PL	JURI

1 amendment

Amendments

Tabled on 27 Sept 2023. The texts are in the amendment documents below.

By article

Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point c1

19 documents

Documents

Newest first. Each opens at its source.

Report · A9-0276/2023Parliament
Proposal · COM(2022)0541Parliament
Text adopted · Corrigendum to final act 32024L3019R(01)Commission
Text adopted · Directive 2024/3019Commission
Text adopted · OJ L 12.12.2024Commission
Text adopted · OJ L 16.01.2025Commission
Report · PE745.327Parliament
Committee opinion · PE746.722Parliament
Amendments · PE746.950Parliament
Amendments · PE747.010Parliament
Amendments · PE748.961Parliament
Amendments · PE748.962Parliament
Amendments · PE748.963Parliament
Amendments · PE748.982Parliament
PE752.769Parliament
Committee opinion · PE752.960Parliament
Text adopted · SP(2024)377Parliament
Text adopted · T9-0222/2024Parliament
Text adopted · T9-0355/2023Parliament

1 consultation

Consultations on it

The Commission's Have Your Say consultations linked to this file. Where we publish the positions filed, the title opens them here.

Consultation	Feedback deadline	Feedback received
Revision of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive Who filed what · Follow the consultation	14 Mar 2023	444

Summary

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The recast directive modernizes EU rules requiring more stringent wastewater treatment, expanding obligations to remove nutrients and emerging pollutants like microplastics and pharmaceuticals. It primarily affects municipal water utilities, industrial dischargers, and the chemicals and pharmaceutical sectors. The legislation was signed in November 2024 and entered into force in December 2024.

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