On Thursday 1 June, the European Commission decided to take Italy to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for a second time for inadequate wastewater treatment in five agglomerations, with the risk of pecuniary penalties if Italy does not fully comply with EU law.
This second referral to the Court concerns Italy’s failure to comply with a 2014 judgment of the CJEU, which found Italy in persistent breach of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC), which requires...