EUROPEAN parliamentarians and EU member states are struggling to reach a common ground on electronic waste recycling as the deadline to meet new legislation passed without a decision being made. They will meet again on 20 December in a last-ditch bid to reach a compromise before the European Parliament's scheduled second-reading plenary vote in January. If no decision is reached by then, the only hope for the proposed revision of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive will be the conciliation procedure where a committee of Council and Parliament representatives will have to finalise a text in just six weeks, or the three-year-old proposal will be withdrawn.
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