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Fireworks to be made safer in EU

By Sophie Mosca | 22 May 2013

Safety rules for fireworks are set to be harmonised and tightened up in the EU soon. Members of the European Parliament adopted (667 to 15, with seven abstentions), on 22 May, a report by Zuzana Roithová (EPP, Czech Republic) on the European Commission's proposal of November 2011 updating the...

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