INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND UP – BRUSSELS ADMITS FRAMING NANO-LAW WILL BE TOUGH
April 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PLANNED attempt this year by the European Commission to table a nanotechnology regulation that gives legal controls to this emerging science will be a tough task, a senior official has admitted to a Brussels conference. Henrik Laursen, from the Commission's environment directorate general told the fourth annual European Union (EU) 'Nano' conference there was no emerging consensus on framing a legal definition of nanoparticles and nanotechnology, which is increasingly used in the paints and coatings sector. This followed a Commission public ...
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