EU: EGYPT TANNNING
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EGYPTIAN government is to receive Euro 521,990 from the European Union (EU) to help improve the environmental performance of its tanneries. The money, from the EU's LIFE Third Countries programme, will be paid to the Egyptian Ministry of Industry and Technological Development. It will mainly be spent on creating and operating two pilot plants to demonstrate good practice to tanners. One will be a tanning unit and the other a linked wastewater treatment facility. Said a European Commission note: "The project's main objective is to show clean ...
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