Brussels, 23/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - The vote at the European Parliament on the Manders Report on the new Environmental Liability Directive has given rise to conflicting views (see Europe of 19 December, p.13).
Lucy Swan of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) comments in a press release that the CEMR had managed to apply pressure to the European Parliament because the plenary rejected a series of amendments proposed by the Legal Committee that would have...