EU MINISTERS OPPOSE VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND LAW
May 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has blocked a tightening of EU rules limiting volatile organic compounds, because the change would have required member states to draft statistical tables indicating potential air pollution by these chemicals. Ministers agreed the European Commission has exceeded the implementing powers of the act by proposing supplementary rules requiring governments "to draw up correlation tables..." The council otherwise agreed with tightening the controls, however, through these proposed changes to annex ...
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