EU COMMISSIONER’S ANGER OVER BATHING WATER STANDARDS CON
May 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) environment Commissioner will push ahead with legal action after EU member states continued to de-list bathing areas from officially-approved beaches subject to cleanliness tests, especially in Mediterranean holiday spots about to be flooded with British holidaymakers. In the latest EU bathing water pollution figures, the Commission said that 254 bathing areas across Europe had been delisted in 2006, which has followed a massive deregulation of beaches in recent years. Last year, the Commission noted that Spain - Europe's ...
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