Strasbourg, 15/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - Some forty Socialist MEPs of all nationalities published a declaration on Monday to protest against the release of the managers of the Italian firm Montedison-Enimont, over the death of employees at the company's petrochemical plant in Marghera. The case related to the death of 157 employees at this plant, attributed to oncogenic substances with which the employees were in contact. The Court in Venice considered that before 1973 the carcinogenic effects of the substances were not known an that proof was inadequate for the period following 1973. In their declaration, the European parliamentarians wax indignant against this decision that "goes against the objectives and instruments of European social policy". "At the Lisbon Summit, the EU reaffirmed its commitment to an economic and social model that promotes a good job, sustainable development and quality of work, protection and improvements in the work place, health and safety of workers", the parliamentarians declare, calling, moreover, on the Italian Government to commit itself to decontaminating the port area of Marghera.