EU Threatens Court
Action against 11 Member States over Noise Pollution
July 12, 2005 — By Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European
Union head office on Monday has threatened to take 11 EU countries to
court unless they introduce new rules to tackle noise pollution.
Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland,
Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal and Britain were supposed to draft national
laws to deal with environmental noise by 18 July 2004.
They now have two months to bring in rules to map noise "hot spots" and
make sure local people are more involved in government efforts to reduce
noise.
If they take no action, the European Commission can take them to the
European Court of Justice and order them to pay a fine.
Source: Associated Press |