ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY
December 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE European Parliament is set to toughen the EU's proposed "polluter pays" legislation - the Environmental Liability Directive - by obliging the EU member states to allocate costs on a proportional basis when more than one operator has caused environmental damage. MEPs are opposing a "common position" agreed earlier this year by the EU Council of Ministers that in such cases the affected country's own national regulations should apply.The legal affairs committee of the Parliament said such an agreement would mean "unacceptably wide differences in ...
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