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A national Swiss campaign has run every PFAS method in the Commission's guidelines side by side, and none of them can name most of the organic fluorine in wastewater.
Prague's draft law transposing the recast EU wastewater directive puts the investment bill at up to CZK 176 billion and gives a detailed view of what the rules mean for a central European member state.
The EU's wastewater directive makes producers of medicines and cosmetics pay at least 80% of the cost of removing micropollutants, but an Advocate General's Opinion has thrown the whole financing model into doubt.
A new study commissioned by the European Commission puts a figure, for the first time, on the social and economic price Europe pays for PFAS pollution – and on the difference between acting and doing nothing.