COMPLAINT TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION CONCERNING FAILURE OF AUSTRIA, BELGIUM, DENMARK, ESTONIA, FINLAND, GERMANY, HUNGARY, IRELAND, POLAND, SWEDEN AND THE NETHERLANDS TO COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE EU WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE 2000/60/EC (“WFD”) ARTICLE 5§1.
(Posted 18 August 2006)

The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and WWF, on behalf of 17 national environmental organisations, have submitted a complaint to the European Commission asking to open an infringement procedure against eleven EU Member States for failure to correctly apply the EU Water Framework Directive. Environmental NGOs say that if the ‘polluter pays’ principle continues not to be applied, citizens will have pay the whole bill and the main goal of the directive - good ecological status of all European waters by 2015 - will not be achieved.

Full text of the news release and the Complaint document are available on the EEB website:
(http://www.eeb.org/Index.htm)