Brussels, 11/05/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 10 May in Brussels, the European Parliament won a comfortable majority (563 votes in favour, 16 against, with 30 abstentions) on toughening up rules governing future European Union exports of hazardous chemical products.
Following the line of its rapporteur, Dan Jorgensen (S&D, Denmark), MEPs introduced a new stricter EU draft regulation that goes even further than the UN Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain...