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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11650

21 October 2016
SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment
Five member states urge Commission to apply precautionary principle to endocrine disruptors
Brussels, 20/10/2016 (Agence Europe)

An increasing number of member states are unhappy with the definition of endocrine disruptors proposed by the European Commission on 15 June 2016 and are taking action at ministerial level to get the Commission to change tack (see EUROPE 11632, 11571).

The environment ministers of Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden, backed by their Luxembourg colleague, spoke up at the Environmental Council on 17 October to make it clear that they were not intending to be deprived of their prerogatives on...

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