EUROPEAN COMMISSION NERVOUS ABOUT LAUNCHING INDOOR AIR QUALITY GREEN PAPER: LEGISLATION OPPOSED BY PLASTICS SECTOR
November 1st, 2008
BY PATRICIA KELLY
THE EUROPEAN Commission is still debating when to launch a Green Paper that could spark new European Union (EU) laws on indoor air quality (IAQ), amidst strong pressure from the European Parliament for legislation and guidance on the issue which would affect plastics manufacturers.
The continued delay is likely to disappoint environmental health NGOs who called for fresh legislation following the EnVIE conference on Indoor Air held in Brussels in September. But with an estimated one third of the plastics industry involved in building and ...
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