Brussels, 18/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - Late in the night of 17 October, the Parliament and Council reached a conciliation agreement on the new draft directive on the protection of subsurface water against pollution (daughter directive of the framework directive on water adopted in 2000), proposed by the Commission in 2003 to modernise and replace the 1980 directive. Six hours of intense negotiations were needed for the two institutions to reconcile their differences, principally on the very...