The Minister of the Environment, Cristina Narbona, yesterday chaired the Plenary Session of the Advisory Council for the Environment (CAMA), a consultative body that aims to participate in and monitor environmental policies aimed at sustainable development by the organizations and entities most representative of social and environmental interests.

The CAMA, attached to the Ministry of the Environment, is a true institutional forum made up of fifteen members, representing environmental organisations, trade unions, consumers and business, agricultural and fishing organisations. In this way, these entities participate through this body in the preparation of basic regulations and environmental policies promoted by the State.

Among the issues discussed at this CAMA meeting were the drafts of the draft Air Quality and Atmospheric Protection Law and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Law, which seeks to improve the legal regime for packaging waste and complete it in some aspects to minimise the environmental impact of packaging throughout its life cycle. fundamentally through the prevention and reduction of the generation of this waste and its hazardousness.

The non-governmental organizations Friends of the Earth, Ecologists in Action, Greenpeace Spain, Adena and the Spanish Ornithological Association are represented on the Environmental Advisory Council; the UGT and CCOO unions; the business organizations CEOE and CEPYME; the professional agricultural organizations ASAJA, COAG and UPA, as well as the Council of Consumers and Users, the National Federation of Consumers and Housewives and the National Federation of Fishermen’s Guilds.