Brussels, 31/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - At the Environment Council which took place on Tuesday 30 October, a key date for the 1996 directive concerning Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (known as the IPPC directive), Stavros Dimas, the commissioner for the environment, reproved the member states which have failed to transpose it. In application of this directive, the major industrial and agricultural installations of the EU must obtain an operating permit from the national...