A new agreement about more responsible scrapping has just now been approved in Brussels by COREPER, the EU countries' ambassadors. The proposal has been long underway and has been heavily debated internally in the Commission, the Parliament, and the Council of Ministers, and was ultimalety approved by a marginal majority. Four major countries voted against the proposal, while three countries declined to vote, which counts as a vote against the proposal.
The Rapporteur to the Environment Committee (ENVI) of the European Parliament, Carl Schlyter, has championed the proposal, and says it's been a long and tough battle to get the proposal approved.
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