Brussels, 09/06/2000 (Agence Europe) - On the basis of the report by Per-Arne Arvidsson (EPP-ED, Sweden), the parliamentary committee on the environment, public health and consumer policy invited the plenary to considerably extend the scope of the Commission proposal aimed at introducing into the Union a permanent ban on six phtalates (substances used for making plastic softer) in soft PVC toys and baby products that children under the age of three put into their mouths, and to impose a...