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Toyota zero emissions ad ruled misleading

Brussels, 17 June 2008 – An advert for the Toyota Prius in the European Voice newspaper which breached the European car labelling directive, has today been ruled misleading by the Belgian advertising standards authority. Friends of the Earth Europe’s car efficiency campaigner, Jeroen Verhoeven, filed a complaint against the advertisement which showed an image of …

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EU waste policy not fit for future

Brussels, 17 June 2008 – Environmental NGOs are deeply disappointed with today’s European Parliament vote on the revised Waste Framework Directive. Parliament accepted a pre-arranged deal that sets inadequate European recycling targets and no target for waste prevention [1]. A number of MEPs made a last-ditch attempt to re-insert the Parliament’s original stronger targets [2], …

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Transparency campaigners appeal to Barroso to fix flawed lobbyists’ register

Brussels, 3 June 2008 – The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU (ALTER-EU) has today written to Commission President Barroso urging him “to intervene and ensure that the Commission’s new register for lobbyists will deliver transparency”. The appeal by the transparency coalition comes after the Commission’s announcement that the long-awaited voluntary …

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