by nv1962 | Noviembre 19th, 2002
Reuters AlertNet - EU under fire as Prestige tanker blame game begins
French President Jacques Chirac slammed the “inability of those in charge, politically, nationally and particularly at European level” to prevent it. The executive European Commission in turn said EU member states should act faster to implement tougher inspection rules without waiting for new European legislation to come into force.
It’s so comforting to know that tax payer money is well spent… In April 2001, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted a plan to gradually phase out single-hull tankers such as the Prestige that are classified as a Category 1 oil tanker. According to that formal agreement, those would be banned from EU waters as per 2015. The measure was adopted after the spill of the tanker Erika, which sunk in December 1999, off the French coast.
Oh, if you wonder what we miss in the EU, check this out. We are decades behind the US.
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