04/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - By adopting the report by Ms. Anneli Hulthen (Sweden, PES), the European Parliament approved the Commission's proposal to ratify the 4th amendment (so-called "Beijing Amendment") of the Montreal Protocol on substances that weaken the ozone layer. The Beijing Amendment provides for the cessation of the production of HCFC substances (in 2004 in developed countries, in 2016 in the others), prohibition of their marketing, ban on bromochloromethane, as well as...