Strasbourg, 03/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - By 266 to 241 with 12 abstentions the Legal Committee decided on Wednesday to keep is powers over the Environmental Damage Directive, as the Conference of Presidents had decided, rejecting the challenge from the President of the Environment Committee, British Conservative Caroline Jackson. In a brief debate ahead of the vote in plenary (the first in a dispute of this nature) Forza Italia MEP Giuseppe Gargani, President of the Legal Committee, said...