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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8463

16 May 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 31
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ep/environment
Effective application of principle of polluter pays at heart of environmental liability system outlined by Parliament - environmentalists are jubilant

Brussels, 15/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - The vote in first reading at the European Parliament in support of a Community environmental liability system is much more ambitious than that proposed by the European Commission (see EUROPE yesterday, p 15) and is the successful outcome of the complexity of the case and multitude of amendments submitted (900 to begin with, 108 in the plenary), which are proof of the deep-seated difference between the legal committee, main protagonist on the case and...

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