{"id":100820,"date":"2020-01-20T18:34:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T17:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/?post_type=library&#038;p=100820"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T09:00:12","slug":"making-the-case-for-a-ban-on-mercury-lamps","status":"publish","type":"library","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/library\/making-the-case-for-a-ban-on-mercury-lamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the case for a ban on mercury lamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fluorescent lamps containing mercury have been the subject of a lengthy dispute between a handful of companies, campaigners and EU institutions. Despite increasing evidence of their negative impact on the environment, mercury-added light bulbs continue to be sold across Europe against the advice of the European Commission&#8217;s own experts and the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2020, we wrote to European Commission&#8217;s vice-president Frans Timmermans, calling for an immediate ban under the EU\u2019s Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, on December 19, we sent <a href=\"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/publications\/60\/mercury\/100990\/eeb_rohs-lamps-letter_dg-environment.pdf\/\"><strong>a similar letter <\/strong><\/a>to EU officials in DG Environment.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/meta.eeb.org\/2019\/12\/05\/mercury-spotlight-the-toxic-lamps-that-shall-not-be-turned-off\/\"><strong>full story here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":100993,"template":"","library_category":[417,434,421,414,424],"library_tags":[485],"class_list":["post-100820","library","type-library","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","library_category-industry-health","library_category-mercury","library_category-product-policy","library_category-resource-efficiency","library_category-waste-and-recycling","library_tags-letter"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library\/100820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/library"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"library_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_category?post=100820"},{"taxonomy":"library_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_tags?post=100820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}