On Wednesday 15 February, the European Commission referred Romania to the Court of Justice of the EU for its failure to close and clean up 68 sub-standard landfills, despite its being required to do so by mid-July 2009.
Under the terms of the landfill directive (Directive 1999/31/EC), member states must recover and dispose of waste in a manner that does not endanger human health or the environment.
In September 2015, the Commission sent a reasoned opinion urging the Romanian authorities to...