EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE – REACH VOTE
October 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) plastics converter industry federation, the EUPC, has welcomed an amendment to the EU's REACH chemical control process that would - if finally approved - remove waste from the system's environmental health assessments.Walter Claes, the EUPC's health, safety and environment director, said: "To apply reach blindly to recycling could have made recycling extremely difficult".The amendment will now be presented to a European Parliament plenary session in November, where it is expected to receive approval, although it must also ...
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