Brussels, 12/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - The legal delay set for the Member States to respect the criteria for bathing water quality by Directive 76/160/EC expired in 1985. However five Member States - the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy - still do not completely respect the rules. Therefore the Commission has decided to undertake legal proceedings against them. Hear are, for each of the cases, the nature of the infraction committed and the stage reached in the legal...