Marine pollution, Paris Convention: non-ferrous metal industry, phasing out hexachloroethane (HCE) PARCOM 96/1

OBJECTIVE: approval of PARCOM Decision 96/1 on the phasing-out of the use of hexachloroethane in the non-ferrous metal industry. SUBSTANCE: the proposal for a decision concerns the adoption, on behalf of the Community, of PARCOM Decision 96/1 on restricting the marketing and use of hexachloroethane (HCE) under the Convention for the prevention of marine pollution from land-based sources (1974 Paris Convention). The Community is a party to the Paris Convention, pursuant to Council Decision 75/437/EEC, which states that the Community shall be represented in the executive body of the Convention, the Paris Commission (PARCOM), by the European Commission, and that the Commission shall put forward the position of the Community in accordance with such directives as the Council may give it. �