Progress with illegal Greek landfills, but 82 still remain

摘要

The European Commission this week reported that there was big progress in the situation of landfills in Greece, but that 82 still remained. Answering a question about the current situation from Greek Liberal MEP, Theodoras Skylakakis,during a 17 October implementation session at the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee, the official said that the last report from Greece dated 26 July revealed that the country had missed the end June deadline for closing all landfills. Some 82 illegal landfills still remained in operation.