{"id":4313,"date":"2020-03-07T13:09:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T13:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2020-03-07T13:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T13:09:03","slug":"commission-to-launch-consultation-on-changing-drinking-water-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4313","title":{"rendered":"Commission to launch consultation on changing drinking-water rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"art\"><\/figure>\n<header>\n<h1>Commission to launch consultation on changing drinking-water rules<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">In response to the first citizens\u2019 initiative, Commission announces steps that could lead to legal change.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"byline\">European Voice<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Toby Vogel<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2014-03-19T07:41:58+00:00\">3\/19\/14, 7:41 AM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated <time datetime=\"2014-05-13T14:40:36+00:00\">5\/13\/14, 2:40 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>The European Commission has today (19 March) responded to the first-ever European Citizens\u2019 Initiative, \u2018Right2Water\u2019, with a catalogue of measures that does not include a commitment to new legislation \u2013 a core demand of the organisers. The response does, however, include the launch, at an unspecified time, of a public consultation about the European Union\u2019s drinking-water directive that could result in changes to current rules.<\/p>\n<p>Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d, the European commissioner for inter-institutional relations and administration, said: \u201cEurope\u2019s citizens have spoken, and today the Commission gave a positive response. Water quality, infrastructure, sanitation and transparency will all benefit \u2013 for people in Europe and in developing countries \u2013 as a direct result of this first-ever exercise in pan-European, citizen-driven democracy. I congratulate the organisers on their achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d, whose department is in charge of managing European Citizens\u2019 Initiatives, spoke after the college of commissioner adopted its response to the \u2018Right2Water\u2019 initiative. The response involved nine different departments of the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are replying with a substantial list of commitments for the coming months and years,\u201d \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d said. \u201cBut we are not starting from scratch: over the years an enormous amount has already been achieved in this field.\u201d The Commission\u2019s response contains a detailed overview of what the EU has done in the past to address access to water both in the EU and in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.nrlshops.com\/rugby-Jerseys' title='cheap nrl jerseys'>cheap nrl jerseys<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Commission\u2019s paper says that the Commission will launch a public consultation on the EU\u2019s drinking-water directive of 1998, \u201cin order to assess the need for improvements and how they could be achieved\u201d. \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d said: \u201cNo doubt this [consultation] would lead to a revision of the drinking water directive.\u201d He did not say when the consultation would be launched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reaction of the European Commission lacks any real ambition to respond appropriately to the expectations of 1.9 million people,\u201d said Jan Willem Goudriaan, speaking for the organisers and referring to the number of Europeans who had signed the initiative. \u201cI regret that there is no proposal for legislation recognising the human right to water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the European Federation of Public Service Unions, which had supported the initiative, said it would ask the political parties and their candidates in the elections to the European Parliament \u201cto commit [themselves] to proposing legislation to implement the human right to water and sanitation and not to liberalise water and sanitation services in the EU and beyond\u201d.Asked whether the EU would enshrine in law the principle that water supplies should remain in public hand, \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d said: \u201cWe cannot do something which goes against the [EU] treaty, against the principle of subsidiarity and proportionality. When it comes to the property, to ownership, that\u2019s a decision that is taken at regional or national or local level.\u201d He did stress, however, that water supplies were exempt from the EU\u2019s internal-market rules.<\/p>\n<p>European Voice reported last week that the Commission felt constrained in its reaction to the citizens\u2019 initiative, which had been signed by almost 1.7 million EU citizens, by the approaching end of its mandate and that it did not believe it was politically feasible to commit the next college of commissioners to specific changes in legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing is clear,\u201d \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d said. \u201cThe European Citizens\u2019 Initiatives are a success and are now a permanent feature on the European political landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commission has until 28 May to respond to the next citizens\u2019 initiative that has met all the legal requirements, demanding a ban on activities in research, public health and development aid that presuppose the destruction of human embryos.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Toby Vogel<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commission to launch consultation on changing drinking-water rules In response to the first citizens\u2019 initiative, Commission announces steps that could lead to legal change. European Voice By Toby Vogel 3\/19\/14, 7:41 AM CET Updated 5\/13\/14, 2:40 PM CET The European Commission has today (19 March) responded to the first-ever European Citizens\u2019 Initiative, \u2018Right2Water\u2019, with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}