ECJ SLAMS ITALY OVER NON-ROAD MOBILE MACHINERY PLANT EMISSIONS
April 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured Italy for failing to comply with 2004 reforms to the European Union (EU) directive 97/68/EC approximating EU laws on pollutants emitted by non-road mobile machinery. Declaring Italy had "failed to fulfil its legal obligations," the court noted that the deadline for introducing the new 2004 standards had been May 20, 2005. In its defence, Italy claimed that its national laws passed before 2004 had already met the new emissions standards, and so no special implementation was necessary. But the court ...
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