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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9223

1 July 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/greece/environment
Commission refers Greece to Court of Justice over lack of waste water treatment

Brussels, 30/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 29 June, the European Commission decided to take Greece to the European Court of Justice for failing to ensure proper treatment of urban water waste in 24 towns and cities across the country. Directive 91/271/EEC on the treatment of urban water waste requires towns and cities of over 15,000 inhabitants to have sewerage systems for collecting their waste water, as well as facilities for giving this water secondary (i.e. biological) treatment to remove...

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