EU ROUND UP
April 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLA RAFT of legal cases are being prepared by the European Commission against eight European Union Member States, to force them to monitor and restrict their production of the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.In a bid to make the EU stick to its Kyoto Protocol commitments, the Commission has formally warned Britain, Luxembourg, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Germany of potential legal actions at the European Court of Justice. These concern alleged failures to implement directives including those on monitoring CO2 in ambient air and ...
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