Luxembourg, 27/04/2005 (Agence Europe) - The European Court of Justice has just found Ireland guilty of “general and persistent” violations of the 1975 directive on waste management: the directive was transposed “extremely late”; the authorisation procedure for companies managing waste is behind (by as long as four years) and the Irish authorities have tolerated non-authorised activities without demanding a halt to them. A Court press release said that Ireland had failed to meet...