EUROPEAN COMMISSION PROMISES TO WORK HARDER AND USE MORE RESOURCES TO CONTROL BIOCIDES
April 1st, 2016
THE EUROPEAN Commission has committed itself to a more vigorous implementation of the European Union’s (EU) biocidal products regulation (No 528/2012), and is encouraging EU member states to follow suit. In a report on the sustainable use of biocides, the Commission stresses that these are “widely used in materials such as…plastics…to protect these materials against microbial, fungi or insect decay.”
The report said the Commission said it planned to “focus and strengthen efforts on the review programme of existing active substances”, to meet its ...
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