EU ROUND UP
March 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is fighting European Union (EU) member states who want to tightly restrict the use of creosote across Europe. It has proposed a regulation under the EU's biocides directive saying creosote can be widely used, with appropriate protection for manufacturers, end-users and precautions to prevent creosote polluting watercourses. The move is being made under the ongoing review of biocides under the EU's biocide directive - 98/8/EC. Brussels last year tried to get this move through a regulatory committee established under the ...
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