Brussels, 20/05/2015 (Agence Europe) - MEPs delivered a real slap in the face to the European Commission in Strasbourg on Wednesday 20 May. By a very wide majority (618 votes to 33, with 28 abstentions), they vetoed Commission plans to extend, by means of a delegated act, the use of cadmium in illumination and display lighting applications and in TVs using quantum dots technology (see EUROPE 11313).
Cadmium, a carcinogenic heavy metal, is on the list of substances the use of which is...