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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9152

16 March 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/environment
Parliament seeks gradual phasing out of all use and exports of mercury by 2010

Brussels, 15/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday in Strasbourg the European Parliament came out in support of phasing out all use and exports of mercury to third countries by 2010 at the latest. Following the line of Marios Matsakis (ALDE, Cyprus), rapporteur of the own-initiative of January 2005 on the Community strategy on mercury, MEPs proved to be more ambitious than the Commission, which had proposed 2011 as the deadline for introducing the ban on exports. The resolution also demands...

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