The European Union’s water blueprint, due by the end of the year, will focus on enforcement and implementation of laws already on the books rather than new legislation.

Water blueprint to focus on enforcement, not new laws.

The European Union’s water blueprint, due by the end of the year, will focus on enforcement and implementation of laws already on the books rather than new legislation, says a Cypriot official whose government will host talks later in the year on the evolving water roadmap.

Christina Pantazi, a Cypriot official whose county holds the rotating presidency of the EU, said discussions held this summer in Nicosia between EU environment ministers called for implementing legislation – including the water framework, nitrates and groundwater directives – rather than making sweeping new proposals.

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