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Ireland faces €3.8m EU fine over shellfish waters

ENDS Europe
Thursday 29 October 2009
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Ireland faces an EU fine of more than €3.8m and daily fines of nearly €40,000 for ignoring a 2007 EU court ruling urging the member state to comply with the 1979 directive on the quality of shellfish waters, it emerged in Thursday.

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