Brussels, 30/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - Approving the report by Dorette Corbey (PES, NL) on the amended directive on packaging and packaging waste, the European Parliament approved, on Thursday, the common text resulting from EP/Council conciliation procedure in December. As the Council had done the same on 26 January by qualified majority (Austria and the Netherlands voted against), the directive has now been formally adopted.
We recall that the new directive amends Directive 94/62/EC,...