BRITAIN FACES LEGAL ACTION FROM BRUSSELS OVER TRANSPARENCY DIRECTIVE
June 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UK government is being threatened with legal action by the European Commission for failing to comply with legislation forcing companies receiving public subsidies to account separately for that part of their work. The law is the transparency directive (2005/81/EC) - supposed to have been written into the Statute Book by December 2006. Brussels says Britain has not fully implemented the law, and has given the government two months to say how it will comply or maybe face a European Court of Justice case. Brussels officials speaking to ...
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