Brussels, 22/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - Greece and Hungary have each received a reasoned opinion for continued infringement of EU rules to counter the trade in illegally harvested timber. This move to the second stage of the infringement procedure came on Thursday 22 October, the two countries having already been sent letters of formal notice in May 2015.
The Commission called on Greece to transpose Regulation 990/2010, which came into force on 3 March 2013 and which bans the placing of...