15/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - By following its rapporteur, German Christian-Democrat Karl-Heinz Florenz, the European Parliament voted on Tuesday (on first reading, according to the co-decision procedure) in favour of a tightening of draft directives on the limit to the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment and on the waste of electrical and electronic equipment. In particular, the European Parliament wants an annual collection rate for this waste of at...