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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11178

17 October 2014
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment
Portugal threatened with huge fines for legal infringement

Brussels, 16/10/2014 (Agence Europe) - Portugal is being taken to the European Court of Justice for the second time for poor implementation of the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) and is at risk of having huge fines imposed on it for non-execution of a European Court of Justice ruling of 2009. The European Commission is calling on the Court to impose a fine of €4,458,828 on this country and a daily penalty payment of €20,196 until the obligations are fulfilled,...

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