Strasbourg, 04/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - Following its rapporteur Karl-Heinz Florenz (EPP-ED, Germany), who chairs the committee on the environment, the Parliament gave its green light at first reading in Strasbourg last week to the proposal aiming to modify directive 2000/14/EC on noise emissions of material and equipment designed to be used outside buildings. This directive aims to harmonise, within the EU, noise levels of a wide range of equipment (mobile and tower cranes, chainsaws,...