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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10337
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment council

Mercury elimination must be speeded up

Brussels, 15/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - The Environment Council hopes the EU will speed up the phasing out of mercury in the environment but this is not enough for Sweden, Denmark and Belgium, which are in favour of a new legislative act to accelerate elimination. Although these countries did not stand in the way of the adoption of unanimous Council conclusions on review of Community strategy on mercury, they did, on Monday 14 March in Brussels, adopt a declaration joined to the minutes of...

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