Brussels, 20/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - Monday's Environment Council in Brussels managed to snatch a political agreement at qualified majority, following long deliberation and umpteen compromises on the draft directive establishing a framework for national plans for collecting and recycling used batteries, which forms part of the objectives set out and the timetable and conditions for phasing out heavy metals.
Getting rid of cadmium was the most controverstail subject and the most difficult...