Press Release: Greece: Commission pursues legal action in three cases for breach of EU environmental law

The European Commission decided to refer Greece to the European Court of Justice in three cases involving EU environmental law, 14 January 2005. The Commission's actions were aimed at strengthening Greek law in order to provide better protection against air pollution and to clean up Lake Koronia, an internationally important wetland that had been harmed by over-abstraction of water and serious industrial and agricultural pollution. The final case aimed at getting Greece to transpose the Emissions Trading Directive, one of the most important EU initiatives to combat global climate change.