EU ROUND UP – PLASTICS COMPANIES HANDLING DANGEROUS CHEMICALS FACE NEW EU CONTROLS
April 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PLASTICS companies in the European Union (EU) storing potentially dangerous chemicals on their premises will have to by 2015 abide by tougher management standards preventing industrial accidents. This is because the European Parliament, the European Commission and the EU Council of Ministers have struck an agreement on the contents of a new law - the Seveso III directive - that will include new safety rules for chemical-using businesses. Named after the site (in Italy) of a notorious 1976 chemical industry accident, the law will force plastics ...
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