HC Deb 29 October 1992 vol 212 c793W
Mr. Dafis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make it his policy to encourage the widening of the scope of the proposed European Community directive on groundwater protection to include management of water catchments.

Mr. Maclean

The EC ministerial declaration at the Hague in November 1991 invited the Commission to elaborate proposals to improve the management and protection of groundwater in the Community. These proposals are awaited.