Greece slapped with 5-million-euro fine over waste water

The European Court of Justice has fined Greece 5 million euros with an additional penalty of 3.28 million euros for every six months that it delays payment its failure to comply with waste water treatment regulations in the Thriasio Plain in western Attica.

Judges ruled that Greece continues to be in violation of an earlier ruling from 2004 by not taking the "measures necessary for the installation of a collecting system for urban waste water from the Thriasio Pedio area to the west of Athens, and not subjecting the urban waste water from that area to treatment more stringent than secondary treatment before its discharge into the sensitive area of the Gulf of Elefsina."

According to the ruling, while a treatment plant had been constructed and put into operation by 2012, the secondary collection network has not been completed and nearly half the population in the area is...

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