CONSTRUCTION DIRECTIVE REFORM – EU CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS APPROVAL LIBERALISATION
March 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) industrial minerals sector is being asked whether it wants the EU's construction products directive liberalised, so member states allow the sale of building materials approved for use in other EU countries. The public consultation follows long criticism levelled at the 1989 legislation, which calls for rigid European CE standards for products such as thermal insulating products, cement, roofing products or façades. Once set, such materials were supposed in theory to be traded across the EU, but 16 years on, only 50% of ...
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