Excerpt from EU Business follows. Full article here.
Environmental and health NGOs welcomed the results of the 1st reading vote from the Environment and Public Health Committee of the European Parliament on the proposed regulation to ban EU mercury exports and ensure the safe storage of surplus mercury. The Committee made a number of improvements to the original Commission proposal.
"The proposals from the parliamentarian responsible for the file to really strengthen the regulation got a significant degree of support", said Elena Lymberidi, the EEB's Project Coordinator of the Zero Mercury Campaign. "The Committee gave a clear signal that the scope of the export ban should be opened up to include certain mercury compounds, as well as those mercury-containing products which are prohibited for sale in the EU."
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