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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9389
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture/environment

Several Member States question usefulness of Soil Framework Directive

Brussels, 19/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - At the meeting of the Agriculture Council, which was held in Brussels on Monday 19 March, several member states, including Austria, Germany, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg and Portugal, voiced their doubts at the usefulness of a framework directive on soil protection, stating, amongst other things, that binding legislation in this field may end up duplicating the work of the existing instruments of the framework directive on water...

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