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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7753

26 July 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/consumers
Debate on phtalates in toys confirms deep division between MEPs - Liikanen: Commission has applied precautionary principle with respect to proportionality

Strasbourg, 06/07/2000 (Agence Europe) - Should one give priority to children's health or to industrial interests? This was the question put by a large number of MEPs who took part in the debate on the report by Per-Arne Arvidsson, Swedish EPP member, concerning the 22nd amendment to the 1976 directive on harmonisation, in Member States, of provisions on the reduced use of phtalates (chemical products that are feared to upset the human metabolism) and amendment to the 1988 directive on...

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