Strasbourg, 07/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 5 July, the European Parliament gave its go-ahead to the directive on surveillance and control of cross-border shipments of radioactive waste and spent fuel, proposed by the Commission to simplify the existing rules for cross-border transfer authorisations (Directive 92/3/EURATOM) and to cover other kinds of nuclear matter (in this case, spent nuclear fuel). Given the fact that such waste is dangerous, strict rules are applied in the EU for...