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Title
Commission Staff Working Document, Impact Assessment: Reducing Marine Litter: action on single use plastics and fishing gear
Title (original)
COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT Reducing Marine Litter: action on single use plastics and fishing gear
Description
This Impact Assessment supports a legal initiative aiming to reduce marine litter, as part of an integral and complementary part of a much wider, comprehensive approach, namely the Plastics Strategy, the Circular Economy Action Plan and the revised waste legislation. It directly addresses the two main sources of marine litter in Europe – i) single use plastics and ii) fishing gear. Together, these constitute 84% of plastic marine litter items, among them the most environmentally harmful items in the marine environment.
Publication year
2018
Resource type
Reports
Language
English
Areas of knowledge
Policy, governance and management
Impacts, reduction & retrieval of ALDFG
Waste prevention & management from fishing, aquaculture and ports
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1

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