Belgium: EUR 400 million from the EIB for wastewater treatment and groundwater protection in Flanders and Wallonia

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is granting Aquafin, the company responsible for managing wastewater facilities and treatment in Flanders, and SPGE (Société Publique de Gestion de l’Eau), which is in charge of sewage treatment in Wallonia, a EUR 200 million loan each. This finance will enable both firms to continue their medium-term (2006–2008) capital expenditure programme.

The loan contracts were signed on 4 September in Brussels, at meetings organised jointly (for Aquafin, by Mr Ivo Van Vaerenbergh, President, and Mr Luc Bossyns, Managing Director; for SPGE, by Mr Jean-Luc Martin, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Mr Jean-François Breuer, Chairman of the Management Committee; and for the EIB, by Mr Philippe Maystadt, President, and Ms Isabel Martín Castellá, Vice-President).