ITALY PIG FARM
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE ITALIAN government is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice over its alleged failure to stage an environmental impact assessment into the establishment of an intensive pig breeding farm at Perd'e Cuaddu, Sardinia. The European Commission claims that Italian authorities did not "properly screen" the farm development "to determine the possible need for a (detailed) assessment." Italian legislation allows developers to assume regulators have ruled against staging a study, if there is no reaction "within 60 days, to a ...
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