GREEN LAWS TAKE EFFORT TO ENFORCE – BUT THEY DO TRANSFORM AUTO PRODUCTION IN THE END
July 1st, 2011
BY DEIRDRE MASON
RECYCLING products as large as motor vehicles; or encouraging public authorities to buy environment-friendly autos seem such good ideas, laws insisting this happens is surely just commonsense? Not so in Europe, it would appear, where a string of countries are in trouble for not implementing the European Union's recent (EU) green procurement directive; and one - Italy - is facing potential legal action for flouting the EU's end-of-life vehicles (ELV) directive, even though these was approved in the year 2000.
Indeed, 10 are being criticized by ...
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