Press Release: Greening the Torino Winter Olympics: an EU success story

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Series Details IP/06/26 (12.1.06)
Publication Date 12/01/2006
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The upcoming 20th Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Torino in February and March 2006, respectively, were to be the first ever truly 'green' major sports events in Europe. Both events were planing to achieve this goal by making good use of EU voluntary environmental tools, in particular the EU eco-management and audit system (EMAS) and the European eco-label.

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European Commission: Memo: MEMO/06/6, EU voluntary environmental protection instruments, 12.1.05 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/06/6&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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