Please note that the directive referred to in paragraph 8 is the SEA directive, not the EIA directive as wrongly stated in Monday's copy. Below is the corrected version of the report.

Ljubljana, 8 January - The Slovenian government has joined an administrative dispute at a Rome court against the Italian authorities over an environmental approval for the construction of a Trieste-Grado-Vilesse gas pipeline in NE Italy. The project is connected with the contentious liquefied gas terminal in Aquilinia near the border with Slovenia.