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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9022

8 September 2005
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ep/environment
Parliament gives go-ahead to stricter legislation for management of mining waste but scales down environment committee's requirements - Towards conciliation proceedings

Brussels, 07/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - In adopting its recommendation at second reading on the future management of waste created by the mining industry within the EU, in Strasbourg on Tuesday, the European Parliament has given its green light to the adoption of a directive which was proposed in 2003, I to give extra muscle to existing legislation (directive 2004/35/EC), allowing lessons to be learnt from a series of accidents including Baia Mare (which led to the pollution of the Danube...

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