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(ICIS) -- A newly revised European
directive provides opportunities to strengthen chemical plant safety rules,
Europe's largest federation of environmental organisations said on
Wednesday.
The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) supported the Seveso II Directive
revision as part of its strategy of pushing for "prevention and precautionary
principles rather than the current 'management of risks' approach and the
provision of more transparency in regards to these installations", it said.
The European Commission said the drafted Seveso II changes would, if
adopted as planned from 1 June 2015, align legislation to changes in EU
chemicals law. This would allow for stricter inspection standards and
improvements in the level and quality of information available to the public in
the event of a chemical plant accident, the Commission added.
The directive is named after the Seveso disaster, caused by an industrial
accident in July 1976 at a small chemical manufacturing plant near Milan, Italy.
It resulted in residents being exposed to a polychlorinated dibenzodioxin.
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