MEPs from the European Parliament's transport committee largely adopted (46 votes in favour, 2 votes against, 0 abstentions), on Tuesday 9 October, the draft report produced by Gesine Meissner (ALDE, Germany) on port reception facilities for the deposit of ship waste, and wanted to regulate the quantity of waste deposited by ships in ports.
This report echoes the European Commission's proposal of last January (see EUROPE 11940).
While the votes of the transport committee MEPs are...