EU DEREGULATION – ENVIRONMENTAL PROPOSALS
September 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of environmental law proposals it will abandon under a drive to simplify European Union (EU) legislation. Dropped laws awaiting agreement from EU ministers and the European Parliament include a year 2000 proposed regulation organising official controls of meat and dairy products; a 1997 proposed directive imposing technical changes on common rules for food labelling; plus tabled ratifications of both a water and health protocol to the 1992 UN convention on transboundary watercourses and international ...
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