EU TO REVIEW ALL NANOTECHNOLOGY LAWS
October 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to review all existing European Union (EU) laws that control the use of nanoparticles, to ensure regulations are sufficiently robust to cope with their unusual properties. Outgoing EU environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told a Swedish government-European Commission conference on nano-regulation: "The Commission will review all relevant legislation within two years to ensure safety for all applications of nanomaterials in products with potential health, environmental or safety impacts over their life ...
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