ECJ CASES FACING PORTUGAL OVER WATER POLICY
March 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening to ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to impose daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000s on Portugal for failing to comply with a 2005 ECJ ruling that it bring its drinking water quality in line with European Union (EU) standards. The Commission is also launching court action over alleged Portuguese failures to abide by the EU urban wastewater treatment directive.
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening to ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to impose daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000s on Portugal for failing to comply with a 2005 ECJ ruling that it bring its drinking water quality in line with European Union (EU) standards. The Commission is also launching court action over alleged Portuguese failures to abide by the EU urban wastewater treatment directive.
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