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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9059

29 October 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/climate
Parliament takes stance in support of phasing out certain fluorinated gases but refuses to set date for banning their use in some applications

Strasbourg, 28/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - It is out of the question for the European Parliament to purely and simply ban the use of the most dangerous fluorinated gases in certain applications. Setting forth its views on Tuesday, in Strasbourg, on a package of measures aimed at phasing out these very powerful greenhouse gases that have taken the place of CFCs (banned in the EU for their potential to destroy the ozone layer), the European Parliament's standpoint was far less ambitious than...

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