AIR POLLUTION – EP
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has struck a deal with the European Union Council of Ministers, entailing it dropping demands for compulsory limits within member countries for air pollution involving arsenic, cadmium, nickel and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Instead, MEPs agreed to set targets for 2012, which may turn into binding limits if they are missed by governments.
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has struck a deal with the European Union Council of Ministers, entailing it dropping demands for compulsory limits within member countries for air pollution involving arsenic, cadmium, nickel and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Instead, MEPs agreed to set targets for 2012, which may turn into binding limits if they are missed by governments.
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