Brussels, 13/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - The first conciliation meeting on the new proposed directive on the quality of bathing water was a successful one on Tuesday in Brussels. In no time at all, the Parliament and the Council arrived at an agreement on a text which is supposed to update a directive which is almost thirty years old, reduce risks for bathers by concentrating on the two most relevant criteria (intestinal enterococci and Escherischia coli), and modernise the management of...