EU states warned over ship waste rules

Environment Daily 1961, 13/10/05

Seven EU countries have been sent final warnings of possible court action for failing to fully implement a 2000 directive on port facilities for ship waste. 

The European Commission complained on Wednesday that Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Slovenia had not set up - or at least had failed to prove that they had done so - waste reception and handling plans for all ports. 

The legal deadline for what it called this "key element" of the directive passed on 27 December 2002.

Follow-up: press release http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/1258.