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"Mercury is dead", says Sweden

ENDS Europe
Thursday 15 January 2009

A near-total ban on mercury is to take effect in Sweden from 1 June, the government has decided. The move was signalled on Wednesday by environment minister Andreas Carlgren, who declared in an interview with national news agency TT that mercury was now "dead and buried".

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The Danish government presents the programme of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union ‘Europe at work'

Denmark took over the presidency of the EU on 1 January.

Read ENDS article on its provisional agenda of meetings

See also its website and full programme of work officially presented on 6 January