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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9870

27 March 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/environment
Parliament gives go-ahead to extend time allowed for examining biocidal substances in EU by at least four years

Brussels, 26/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament is in favour of key biocidal products such as hospital disinfectants not being taken off the market on 15 May 2010 as initially planned under the 1998 directive on the marketing of biocidal products (98/8/EC). MEPs agreed, on 24 March in Strasbourg, that national rules governing the marketing of these products should continue until 14 May 2014 as they consider the initial ten-year period (ending 14 May 2010) does not allow enough...

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