The European Environment Agency (EEA) released, towards the end of 2015, the second of its annual reviews of national and regional waste prevention programmes in Europe. The Waste Framework Directive, as revised in 2008, set a legal obligation for EU member states to adopt waste prevention programmes by 12 December 2013. The EEA has been invited to review annually the progress towards the "completion and implementation of the programmes". The review process covers programmes in the 28 European Union (EU) member states and the three European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries, namely Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. This second review covers the 27 national and regional programmes that had been adopted by the end of 2014.
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