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MEPs demand end to REACH asbestos exemptions

ENDS Europe
Friday 8 May 2009

The European Commission must develop a strategy to end by 2015 exemptions to a ban on asbestos under EU chemical rules (REACH), MEPs said in a resolution adopted on Thursday. MEPs were meeting for the last time before June's parliament elections.

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