the Government's policy of non-co-operation with the European Commission over complaints that the State was failing to apply the safeguards of the 1979 Wild Bird Directive to projects affecting the Dublin Bay area could put Ireland at risk of being fined £15,000 a day, Mr Proinsias De Rossa MEP warned yesterday. He said that the European Commission had announced it was to send a second warning letter over the Government's failure to respond to queries.
£15,000-a-day fine warning
the Government's policy of non-co-operation with the European Commission over complaints that the State was failing to apply …
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