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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8500

9 July 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/transport
Against commission of inquiry into Prestige oil tanker disaster

Brussels, 08/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament Committee on Transport has rejected by a slim majority (26 for and 30 against) the idea of setting up a commission of inquiry to shed light on the Prestige oil tanker disaster. On Tuesday, during the vote on the report by Belgian Liberal Dirk Sterckx on stepping up maritime security further to the sinking of the oil tanker, the call by the Parliament's Committee on the Environment in favour of setting up a committee of inquiry or...

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