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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8397

11 February 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport
France, Portugal and Spain support accelerated elimination of single hull oil tankers - Doubt is cast over adopting Commission proposal in March

Brussels, 10/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - French President Jacques Chirac and the Prime Ministers of Spain, José Maria Aznar, and Portugal, José Manuel Durao Barroso, have, according to Reuters, written a letter to Costas Simitis, President-in-Office of the European Council, calling for implementation of the ban on single hull oil tankers of the Prestige kind to be accelerated.

Three weeks after the letter sent by Romano Prodi to Costas Simitis - with a copy to the French, Spanish and...

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