{"id":138689,"date":"2025-03-28T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/big-pharma-versus-the-eu-who-should-pay-for-urban-wastewater-treatment\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T07:00:16","slug":"big-pharma-versus-the-eu-who-should-pay-for-urban-wastewater-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/big-pharma-versus-the-eu-who-should-pay-for-urban-wastewater-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Pharma versus the EU: who should pay for urban wastewater treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138689\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries have gone to the EU&#8217;s court to challenge a directive that requires them to finance at least 80% of urban wastewater treatment. Players in the pharmaceuticals and cosmetics industries have brought a case against the Directive on the Treatment of Urban Wastewater to the Court of Justice of the European Union<\/p>\n<p>The European Directive, which came into force on 1 January 2025, requires producers of medicines and cosmetics to finance at least 80% of treatment to eliminate micropollutants from urban wastewater, in accordance with the polluter pays principle. More than 90% of the &#8221;micropollutants that leave the effluent of wastewater treatment plants come from pharmaceutical and cosmetic products&#8221;, Hans Goossens, President of Water Europe, told Euronews. In his view, it is therefore &#8221;fair&#8221; that &#8221;80% of the costs of eliminating this waste should be borne by those who generate these costs&#8221;. &#8221;The polluter pays principle is the cornerstone of European environmental policy&#8221;, he adds.<\/p>\n<p>For their part, the pharmaceutical and cosmetics sectors believe that the burden should be shared more evenly. &#8221;We&#8217;re all in favour of paying our fair share of the pollution we generate, but it has to be a fair share,&#8221; Nathalie Moll, Director General of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We&#8217;re trying to understand, since we couldn&#8217;t get the data from the European Commission and the methodology on which the decision was based, we&#8217;re trying find out who the different polluters are and make sure that this important directive is set up on the right principles and that all the actors are involved, not only to pay their fair share, but also to make sure they&#8217;re incentivised to make more sustainable products in the future,&#8221; she adds. The EFPIA director also regrets not having had access to the European Commission&#8217;s methodology and data. The Commission estimates the cost of additional treatment at wastewater treatment plants at \u20ac1.2 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/03\/27\/big-pharma-versus-the-eu-who-should-pay-for-urban-wastewater-treatment\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/03\/27\/big-pharma-versus-the-eu-who-should-pay-for-urban-wastewater-treatment\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/big-pharma-versus-the-eu-who-should-pay-for-urban-wastewater-treatment\/\">Big Pharma versus the EU: who should pay for urban wastewater treatment?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7657,4677,606,607,608,2885],"class_list":["post-138689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-treatment","tag-urban","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-wastewater"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}