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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8432

29 March 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport council
Five delegations hope to strengthen protection of "particularly vulnerable" maritime areas

Brussels, 28/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - During Friday's Transport Council, France, Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Ireland presented a note calling upon the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to designate "particularly vulnerable maritime areas" in order to be able to take special national measures to protect these areas as allowed - under certain, mainly ecological, conditions - by the Convention on Sea Law of the World Health Organisation. These countries hope to present a...

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