IRELAND CENSURED BY ECJ OVER ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION LAPSE
May 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government has received the latest in a long string of censures from the European Court of Justice for failing to comply with European Union (EU) environmental legislation. In this instance Dublin was condemned for not implementing directive 2003/4/EC guaranteeing public access to environmental information, which was supposed to have been written onto its statute book by February 2005. The court ordered Ireland to comply with the directive or face substantial recurring fines.
THE IRISH government has received the latest in a long string of censures from the European Court of Justice for failing to comply with European Union (EU) environmental legislation. In this instance Dublin was condemned for not implementing directive 2003/4/EC guaranteeing public access to environmental information, which was supposed to have been written onto its statute book by February 2005. The court ordered Ireland to comply with the directive or face substantial recurring fines.
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