EU EXPERT COMMITTEE CHALLENGES DUTCH COPPER-PAINT RESTRICTIONS
March 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission may move against a Dutch ban on copper-based anti-fouling paints for leisure boats, after the European Union's (EU) Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) concluded The Hague had insufficiently justified the law. In an expert opinion, the committee concluded the Netherlands government's explanation "does not provide sufficient sound scientific evidence to show that the use of copper-based antifouling paints in leisure boats presents significant environmental risk." It called for further risk ...
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