A step was taken in Strasbourg on Tuesday 3 October towards formal updating of the EU directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (2011/65/EU, known as the RoHS 2 directive).
On the recommendation of Adina-Ioana Vălean (EPP, Romania), who chairs the environment committee, the European Parliament voted, by the overwhelming majority of 645 votes to 28, with 6 abstentions, to approve the provisional inter-institutional...