SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment

Chemicals and health - ten countries urge Commission to present its strategy for non-toxic environment

Brussels, 31/07/2018 (Agence Europe)

Chemicals in the environment and public health are not good bedfellows.  It is high time the European Commission tackled this problem in line with the commitments taken in the 7th Environment Action Programme (EAP), adopted in 2013, and to present the initiatives expected.

Such was the message sent by the environment ministers of nine EU member states (Germany, Finland, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden and Slovakia) and Norway to the Commission on 27 July,...