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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ep/chemical products

Unthinkable for Greens that Parliament renounces principle of systematic substitution of all dangerous chemicals when safer alternatives exist

Brussels, 05/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - To say that the Green/EFA group at the Parliament is disappointed with the informal compromise reached on 1 December between the parliament and the Council on the REACH recommendation, is a euphemism (EUROPE 9320 and 9319). But there is no question that the parliamentary ecologists are going to lay down and die. Carl Schytler (Swedish Green) and Caroline Lucas (British Green) were distraught that the war they have been waging to get this new legislation...

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