Strasbourg, 15/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 13 June, the European Parliament re-asserted its desire not to weaken the September 2003 draft directive on the protection of groundwater against pollution, to replace the 1980 directive. Just like the rapporteur Christa Klass (EPP-ED, Germany) the plenary session judged, by a large majority, that the Council's common position did not pay sufficient attention to prevention. It decided, then, to raise the bar on the second reading.
The text adopted...