GROUNDWATER – EP
March 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament's environment committee has signalled a move away from imposing European Union (EU)-wide environmental standards as a means to green the continent. It has agreed with the European Commission that a new EU directive on groundwater should let national governments set their own standards of cleanliness. Instead of setting rigid EU-wide chemical standards, the committee and the Commission has adopted the softer approach of framing rules on how national governments should set such standards, notably that the precautionary ...
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