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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9113

20 January 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ep/environment
Stricter environmental laws on mining waste are adopted, to take effect in two years' time

Brussels, 19/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European directive aimed at better management of mining waste within the EU by strengthening the provisions of the current directive 2004/35/EC has been adopted. On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg will confirm the common text resulting from EP/Council conciliation on a text that draws lessons from the series of accidents that occurred in Europe, such as cyanide pollution of the Danube (Baia Mare, Romania, in 2000) or the heavy metal...

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