article_snippet: Member states have set All EU countries a deadline of 2025 to meet the target which can be achieved through the introduction of bans or charges.
article_snippet: Means UK is already on course to meet the target which can be achieved through the introduction of bans or charges following decisions by the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, which have already have a system of charges.
article_snippet: However, Pollution and litter expert at the MCS, Dr Sue Kinsey said an original plan for mandatory charges throughout EU had been watered down with a decision to leave an original plan for mandatory charges throughout the EU up to each member state on how to achieve the promised 80per cent reduction.
article_snippet: Bizarrely, the UK government was among those that opposed the idea of a mandatory charge across all EU states.
article_snippet: Some other EU nations already have controls in place.
article_snippet: Italy has a ban and Spain will introduce one in 2018, while there are levies in the Czech Republic and Malta.
article_snippet: The Danish Green MEP Margrete Auken, who pushed the legislation through the European parliament, called the approval