BATHING WATER DIRECTIVE
November 1st, 2002
BY DEIRDRE MASONSIMPLIFIED rules for ensuring that clean bathing water set out in the final proposal for a revised European Union (EU) bathing water directive will need to stand up to cost benefit analysis, water utility representatives have stressed.The European Commission has now tabled proposed revision for agreement by EU ministers and MEPs, after years of argument that stalled previous attempts to update the 1976 directive. The proposed new legislation involves a swing away from monitoring and towards beach management. The latter will continue to involve ...
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