Brussels, 21/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - On 18 April, the European Parliament (EP) environment committee began discussion of the proposal for a regulation banning the use of phosphates in detergents to reduce the amount of phosphates in waste water in Europe (see EUROPE 10250). Bill Newton Dunn (ALDE, UK), rapporteur on the new legislation (amendment of Regulation EC 648/2004) intends to go further than the Commission by extending the ban on phosphates to detergents for automatic...