Brussels, 19/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - The road is now open to formal adoption of the new European directive on bathing water quality in the EU. On Wednesday, a large majority of the European Parliament (584 votes to 11 and 56 abstentions) confirmed the joint text resulting from EP/Council conciliation on this directive, thus modernising thirty year-old legislation (Directive 76/160/EC) with a view to reducing health risks for bathers by focusing on the most relevant parameters of analysis...