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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8043

8 September 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment
"Blue March" for a new water policy in Europe alleges that the Spanish hydroelectric programme infringes EU legislation and calls on EU to refuse to co-fund it

Brussels, 07/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - Spain's planned hydroelectric programme - which might be eligible for Community co-funding - has a caused a storm of protest among European ecologists who are anxious to warn the European Commission about the scheme. They accuse the programme of not respecting the requirements of EU legislation (the Water Framework Directive that will come into force in 2004) and Spanish demonstrators, supported by a collective association of ecologists, political...

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