Un Committee Recommendations On Measures To Eliminate Asbestos Risk
EDM number 903 in 2001-02, proposed by Michael Clapham on 27/02/2002.
That this House welcomes the report of the Interim Chemical Review Committee, a part of the United Nations Environment Programme; notes its recommendation that all forms of asbestos should be subject to international trade controls to eliminate the risk associated with the material; and calls on the United Kingdom Government to take the lead at the Monterey Conference on financing development and the Johannesburg World Summit on sustainable development to call for a world wide ban of asbestos and products containing it to be an integral part of the sustainable development agenda.
This motion has been signed by a total of 66 MPs.
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