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"This is a terrible catastrophe to have hit Hungary and I have a great deal of sympathy for the people who have been affected.
What is incomprehensible is the fact that a by-product containing chromium, arsenic and mercury was stored in an open reservoir, where, in principle, heavy rains could be enough to cause a dangerous situation. How many more of these reservoirs are there in Hungary, in Europe, and throughout the world?
Allow me to quote a researcher in biogeometry:
I will quote in English: ‘There is an urgent need for a complete global inventory of such tailing ponds, whose toxic contents represent chemical time bombs. … This is already the third such catastrophe in Europe alone in the last 12 years. All of them would have been avoidable. It cannot be the task of research alone to protect the world from such catastrophes. Government regulations and supervision are needed here.’
What does the Commissioner think about this? Do we need better chemicals legislation, an improved substitution principle, more effective rules, more rules, more controls and more alternative products? What should be done and how quickly can we do it? The intention and the aim, however, must be to bring about long-term changes and to put preventative measures in place."@en1
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