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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9684

18 June 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/environment
Way open to adoption of revised framework directive on waste and setting of recycling targets up to 2020

Brussels, 17/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - On 17 June in Strasbourg, the European Parliament opened the way to revision of the framework directive on waste management, which will impose new targets on member states for re-using or recycling materials up to 2020. This will allow the Commission to set out waste prevention targets at a later date. Following the line of their rapporteur, Caroline Jackson (EPP-ED, United Kingdom), a large majority of MEPs (673 votes for, 10 against) ratified the...

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