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"Decabromodiphenylether is a brominated flame retardant well known to Parliament: in February 2003, it was placed ‘under close surveillance’ and, at the same time, the European Union, in a report of which I was the author, banned its two ‘sister’ substances, penta and octa BDE.
DecaBDE is a bio-accumulative chemical product, which has been found in breast milk and for which the relative European Scientific Committee has recommended that the risk be reduced even further. It is, moreover, a substance that the European Union has undertaken to ban in electrical and electronic equipment from 1 July 2006.
It is therefore surprising that the European Commission should recommend a major retrograde step by seeking, through the comitology procedure – or, in other words, ‘on the quiet’ – to have this ban reconsidered. In both form and substance, this attempt to force it through is unacceptable. The Commission has offered no argument to justify this u-turn – indeed, no justification would have been possible.
I therefore support this resolution and call on the Commission to reverse its decision. Should it fail to do so, I shall have no hesitation, with a number of my colleagues, in referring the matter to the Court of Justice."@en1
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