FRANCE – FINES
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLFRANCE is flirting with potentially huge daily recurring fines from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by failing to implement three ECJ rulings, one on some of the European Union's (EU) oldest water legislation. Paris, claims the European Commission, has failed to adopt pollution reduction programmes required by the 1976 directive on discharges of dangerous substances to water, such as heavy metals, pesticides and chemicals. The court has already found France in breach (last June), but the Commission says nothing has been done and it has warned ...
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