Strasbourg, 07/07/2000 (Agence Europe) - Adopting the report by the Swedish Conservative Per-Arne Arvidsson, the European Parliament strengthened, in first reading under the co-decision procedure, the draft Directive aiming to ban the use of amounts of phthalates above 0.1% in the manufacturing of toys aimed at children under three and susceptible of being put in the mouth. The Parliament lowered the concentration to 0.05% and extended the ban to all the phthalates while the Commission had...