Brussels, 16/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - At the end of difficult negotiations, the Environmental Council reached political agreement in Luxembourg on Friday evening on the main points of the proposed directive to bring into the Union a regime of environmental liabilities, making companies accountable for unforeseeable environmental damage. The last controversial issue- that of exclusion/extenuation factors in this liability (see EUROPE of 14 June, p.10)- was resolved by a compromise between...