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Article: Leveling the playing field: the EU adopted VOC reducing legislation about a decade ago. Now the challenge is to ensure it is implemented consistently and uniformly.(Europe)(European union)(volatile organic compounds )
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- Coatings World
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- June 1, 2004
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The European Union has adopted new legislation on steps to reduce the emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from decorative and auto-repair paints approximately 10 years after the measures were first muted.
Now, the next challenge is to ensure that the regulations are implemented consistently and uniformly throughout the EU. The legislation has been created in the form of a directive which has to be incorporated into national laws within each EU member state.
The ways in which the new rules are drawn up and enforced at the national level will be particularly important to small- and medium-sized (SMEs) firms for whom compliance could be extremely ...