Revision of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive Webinar

On February 7^th 2023, the European Water Association invited Michel Sponar Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission, Directorate General for the Environment to talk about the Revision of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive.

On October 26th, the European Commission released the Proposal for a revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive. In order to understand more the proposal and its potential implication, we have decided to invite participants for a free webinar.

During this 1,5 hour webinar, Michel Sponar gave us a general introduction of the directive and also presented the last revision with its new impacts, new criteria/obligation for all concerned water actors and to exchange on the ideas and concepts behind this proposal.

More than 500 participants from all over the world have registered for this webinar and have submitted hundreds of questions. For more than half an hour, Michel Sponar answered questions from the participants.

The full webinar is recorded and available on the European Water Association Youtube Channel.