Luxembourg, 25/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - After long debate and last-minute arbitration, EU environment ministers, meeting in Luxembourg on Thursday 25 June, managed to reach political agreement on the proposal to recast European legislation on the integrated prevention and control of industrial pollution into one single directive.
The hard-won political agreement was reached by qualified majority decision on the basis of a compromise from the Czech Presidency whose stubbornness paid...