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Greece to Pay €16 Mln Fine for Wastewater Treatment

33942921Greece is to pay 16 million euros in fines for failure to comply with wastewater treatment regulations at the Thriasio Plain in western Attica.
According to a Kathimerini newspaper report, Athens is also to pay additional fines for every day that it fails to get the facilities serving the towns of Elefsina, Aspropyrgos, Magoula and Mandra up to acceptable standards of operation.
The European Court of Justice is expected to uphold the Commission’s recommendation as 12 years have passed since Greece’s first conviction for violating environmental rules, particularly with regard to the quality of water discharged into the Elefsina Gulf, an area that has been declared a “sensitive area” in 1999.
The biological treatment plants that went in operation in 2012 are deemed inadequate by the European Commission, as they are capable of collecting and treating “only a very low percentage” (28 percent) of urban waste-water.
“In addition, the Commission has not obtained from the competent authorities any timetable with reliable data to permit any assessment of when any realistic progress can be expected,” the action claims. “The Commission emphasizes that the various deadlines which the Greek authorities have over time made known to the Commission have never been observed.”
The Commission is asking the court to impose a fine of 3,828 euros for every day from the first conviction (April 14, 2004), with an additional fine of 34,974 euros for every day that Greece fails to comply henceforth, the Kathimerini report concludes.

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