EUROPEAN COMMISSION ACTS AGAINST PORTUGAL RESTRICTIONS ON PLASTIC PIPES
June 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lost patience with Portugal over its restrictions on the import of European Union (EU)-made polyethylene water pipes, asking the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to impose heavy recurring fines. If Lisbon does not scrap the restrictions quickly, judges could soon impose daily penalties of many thousands of Euro, payable until Portugal complies with an earlier ECJ ruling against its pipe import policy. The court has told Portugal to remove restrictions preventing any interested EU polyethylene pipe supplier from ...
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