Brussels, 01/02/2012 (Agence Europe) - The proposal of the European Commission to amend EU legislation to step up the fight against chemical pollutants in water (see EUROPE 10543) has failed to win over the environmental NGOs, which feel that it is too little, too late.
Greenpeace laments the fact that the Commission is proposing to add just 15 substances to the list of priority substances, out of a total of 2,000 potentially dangerous chemicals. “The Commission has systematically dodged...