Brussels, 14/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption by a comfortable majority (310 for, 177 against and 23 abstentions) of the report by Dutch Liberal Toine Manders, the Parliament took a stance at first reading in favour of an ambitious Community regime on environmental liability founded on the prevention of damage to the environment and on effective application of the polluter-pays principle. The text approved after much compromise substantially reinforces the European Commission's...