Press Release: Portugal: Commission sends final warnings over environmental infringements

The European Commission is continuing legal action against Portugal over three breaches of EU law to protect human health and the environment. In each case Portugal is being sent a final written warning that it will be taken to the European Court of Justice unless the infringement is rectified in the near future. The breaches concern serious shortcomings in Portugal’s management of industrial waste, a leisure development that threatens to damage an important nature conservation site, and inadequate treatment of waste water from a major coastal city near Lisbon.