BRUSSELS THREATENS FOUR EU COUNTRIES WITH LEGAL ACTION OVER AVIATION EMISSIONS
May 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOVERNMENTS of Germany, Poland, Cyprus and Estonia have been threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice over their alleged failure to include aviation pollution in their laws implementing the European emissions trading system. This was supposed to have happened by last February, but the European Commission says these four countries have failed to meet their legal commitments, even though they claim to be trying to set up the necessary controls. In a final warning, the Commission urged them "to speed up the adoption of ...
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