Brussels, 18/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has called on the United Kingdom to abide fully by a January 2007 European Court of Justice ruling, after it infringed directive 91/271/EEC on urban waste water treatment. A first warning has been sent to London.
The UK will have to remedy two problems. Seven towns of over 15,000 inhabitants (Bangor, Brighton, Broadstairs, Coleraine, Donaghadee, Margate and Portrush) do not have adequate wastewater treatment facilities. Six other towns...