HL Deb 28 January 1980 vol 404 cc659-60WA
Lord O'HAGAN

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What they are doing to ensure that European Economic Communtiy bathing water Directives are withdrawn and replaced with measures more suitable to British climatic conditions.

Lord BELLWIN

Her Majesty's Government do not intend to seek the with- drawal of this Directive, which was agreed in 1975. The Government have taken steps to comply with the Directive, and the first report on bathing waters was sent to the Commission in December.