12/02/2007 (Agence Europe) - In a ruling on 25 January (case C-405/05), the Court took the view that the United Kingdom had failed in its obligations to transpose the directive on the treatment of urban waste water (91/271/EEC). The measures put into place in 15 cities, including nine in Northern Ireland, did not ensure “secondary treatment or equivalent treatment” for “the entirety of waste water discharges produced” in these cities by 31 December 2000, which was the cut-off point...