06/09/2000 (Agence Europe) - By adopting the report by the Swedish Green, Inger Schorling, the European Parliament approved, with some amendments, the Council's "common position" on the draft directive concerning the evaluation of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment. These amendments essentially aim to broaden the directive's field of application. But Parliament did not manage the necessary 314 qualified majority vote on second reading to adopt the amendment...