Vote cancelled. Although it had planned to include it on its agenda, the European Commission did not carry out a vote on proposals regarding endocrine disruptors, at a meeting of the PAFF committee of national experts on Wednesday 21 December, as there was not enough support to ensure a qualified majority.
Readers may recall that in mid-June, the Commission presented three criteria to identify (and therefore ban) chemicals that interfere dangerously with the hormone system: (1) the...