IRELAND – ECJ
December 1st, 2003
KEITH NUTHALLIRELAND has been censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to adopt clean-up programmes for all sea water areas designated for shellfish harvesting waters, breaking a 1979 European Union (EU) directive. The Irish government has also been told to pay the costs of the legal action, brought by the European Commission. Ireland admitted that it had broken EU law, but drew ECJ judges' attention to draft programmes drawn up by its relevant agencies, (unsuccessfully) asking the court to suspend the proceedings. If the Commission considers ...
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