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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8978

28 June 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment council
Council unanimously supports Community strategy for banning mercury exports by 2011 at latest

Brussels, 27/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - On 24 June, the Environment Council expressed, in Luxembourg, its unanimous and formal support for the Community strategy proposed by the European Commission for phasing out with a view to banning mercury exports from the EU to third countries by 2011, and contributing at international level to reducing releases of mercury and phasing out the use and trade of mercury. Lucien Lux, the Luxembourg minister who chaired the sitting, told the press that he...

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