ECJ POLLUTION
April 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has found that Italy has breached the EU's 1991 urban waste water directive by allowing discharges from the city of Milan to be released indirectly into environmentally sensitive areas without being subjected to specific treatment.Milan has no waste water treatment plant and waste from its 2.7 million inhabitants is discharged without treatment into the Lambro-Olona river system and then into the River Po, which flows into a polluted area of the Adriatic Sea, affecting areas officially labelled as requiring special ...
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