EUROPEAN COMMISSION COMPLAINS OF SLOW PROGRESS OVER END OF LIFE VEHICLES DIRECTIVE

BY KEITH NUTHALL WITH the European Commission waiting for due data by June 2008 on the performance of member states regarding the recycling and reuse of materials taken from end-of-life vehicles, a Brussels interim reports has stressed progress is still lacking. A Commission official told Materials Recycling Week that regarding the end-of-life vehicle directive, the European Union (EU) executive was taking legal action over four cases of failures to properly transpose the legislation into national statutes - in Belgium, France, Italy and Poland. And it there ...


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