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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8476

5 June 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/transport/maritime security
Parliament wants single-hulled oil-tankers phased out more quickly

Strasbourg, 04/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - In its landslide approval (501 for, 5 against and 14 abstentions) of the report by German Social Democrat Wilhelm Ernst Piecyk on the proposed regulation to accelerate the phasing-out of single-hulled oil-tankers entering and leaving a Community port, irrespective of the flag it is flying, and to ban them from transporting heavy fuel, the European Parliament has demonstrated its support for the speedy adoption and implementation of this regulation...

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