EU ROUND UP – EU CONCERN RISES OVER PLASTICS TOXICITY
June 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has been toughening EU legislation controlling the export of potentially toxic chemicals and chemical waste, including those used by the plastics sector. MEPs amended proposals from the European Commission that would erase a loophole allowing exports without the permission of the importing country's regulators, if they did not respond within 60 days. Under the new changes, exporters would also have to prove the chemical had been imported by the destination country in the past five years; there ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.