Brussels, 23/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - Four years after the deadline for transposition of directive 97/11/EC on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), the Member States have a long way to go correctly to implement this vital legislation, which brings in environmental concerns at the planning level of programmes and projects.
The report which the European Commission has just published on the implementation of this directive over the past five years bears witness to this, as do numerous...