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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10293
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment

Hungary asked to re-classify red mud

Brussels, 13/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission expects Hungary to re-classify the alkaline red mud as a dangerous substance when it considers renewing the operating permit of the aluminium plant in Ajka that was at the origin of the major industrial disaster of 4 October 2010. Joe Hennon, spokesman for Environment Commissioner Janez Potoènik, said on Thursday 13 January that the Commission had sent the Hungarian authorities a letter asking for just such a...

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