abstract:The Seveso is a 55 km Italian river, which flows through the provinces of Como, Monza e Brianza and Milan. It rises on Sasso di Cavallasca or Monte Sasso of Cavallasca, near San Fermo della Battaglia.
On July10, 1976, an explosionatanorthernItalianchemical plantreleased a thick, whitecloudofdioxin that quicklysettled on the town of Seveso, north of Milan.
Whilst some Seveso sites already meet these rules under the Industrial Emissions Directive, this means that others will be inspected more often in future.
The committee's recommendation called for updates to the Seveso Directive rules - first introduced in the 1970s after an accident in the Italian town, Seveso.
MEPs have called on the Commission to examine whether the scope of the Seveso Directive should be extended to include offshore oil exploration, pipelines and certain nanomaterials.