EUROPEAN COMMISSION WARNS SPAIN OVER VIGO ECJ RULING
January 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has warned Spain it may ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to levy heavy daily recurring funds if it continues to ignore an ECJ ruling that it reduces pollution in shellfish waters in the RÃa de Vigo, Galicia. Spain was ordered last January to write a shellfish-focused water pollution prevention plan involving sewage treatment for the polluted estuary, which is rich in mussels. A Brussels statement said: "The Commission has still not received any information that the Spanish authorities have adopted such a pollution ...
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