STEEL STATS

BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to extend the legal duty on EU steel manufacturers to supply substantial amounts of statistics about their outputs and inputs, at least until the end of this year. With the expiry of the European Coal and Steel Community in July, the regulation forcing them to collate the figures would have lapsed, but the European Commission has formally tabled that it be extended until December, following calls from EU policy units and national ministries that the statistics should continue to be made available. These ...


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