BRITAIN FACES ECJ ACTION OVER ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY DIRECTIVE
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government is being taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission for allegedly failing to comply with the European Union's environmental liability directive. The UK is one of nine member states - also including Ireland - accused of not writing the law's principles on polluters paying for damages caused by their actions into their national statute books. Governments had until May 2007 to implement the 2004 directive.
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THE BRITISH government is being taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission for allegedly failing to comply with the European Union's environmental liability directive. The UK is one of nine member states - also including Ireland - accused of not writing the law's principles on polluters paying for damages caused by their actions into their national statute books. Governments had until May 2007 to implement the 2004 directive.
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