Brussels, 04/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - It is the opinion of Vasso Papandreou, who presided the Environment Council on Tuesday in Brussels, that the public debate held by EU ministers on the proposal aimed at amending the 1976 Bathing Water Directive allowed useful guidelines to be set in place for continuing work.
On the basis of a questionnaire from the Greek Presidency, ministers took a stance on the relevance of the two bacteriological criteria adopted (intestinal cocci and escherichia...