Perss Release: Environment: Commission sends final warning to Finland over environmental liability law

The European Commission sent a final written warning to Finland for failing to comply with a European Court of Justice ruling on environmental liability law. The ruling concerns Finland's failure to transpose the EU directive on liability for damage to the environment into its domestic law. While the transposition has now been completed on the mainland, the directive has not yet passed into law in the province of Åland. The deadline was 30 April 2007. In the absence of measures to comply with the final warning, the Commission has powers to ask the Court to impose fines on Finland.