EU MINISTERS ACCEPT NEW EU MERCURY STORAGE RULES
July 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has accepted a proposed directive on rules for the storage of metallic mercury, passing the legislation to the European Parliament for its final scrutiny. Ministers made one small change to the law - so that member states will have to comply with these rules from March 2013 rather than 2012. The legislation has been drafted following the EU's mercury export ban, forcing EU member states to store and dispose of their own mercury. The new law considers - said a council note - that "metallic ...
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