On Thursday 15 February, negotiators from the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the revision of the Directive on ship-source pollution (see EUROPE B13351A29).
“The seas and oceans are our common good. These new rules will set the EU to the forefront when it comes to clean shipping”, commented Paul Van Tigchelt, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Justice and the North Sea, in a press release.
“We found a compromise...