REACH – EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE – METAL
October 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE NON-FERROUS metal industry will be disappointed by amendments passed at this week's European Parliament environment committee on the REACH chemical control system, which will make it more onerous for the sector. Its lobbyists will now have until the parliament's plenary meeting next month (Nov) to persuade MEPs to reject the changes formally tabled by the committee.REACH spokesman for the right-wing European People's Party faction Oomen-Ruijten said the committee's amendments "will introduce a great deal of unnecessary red tape", maybe driving ...
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