SPAIN ECJ
December 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLSPAIN has become the second European Union (EU) country to be hit by fines levied by the European Court of Justice, being penalised for failing to improve the environmental health standards of its inland bathing waters. Judges ordered Spain to pay Euro 624,150 every year for each percentage of its rivers and lakes used for bathing that fail to meet quality standards imposed by the EU bathing water directive. This could be expensive, given that 14.9 per cent of these waters failed the test last year, maybe exceeding the first fine against a Member ...
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