Brussels, 05/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - Next Wednesday in Strasbourg, the European Parliament is expected to approve a proposal aimed at placing a definitive ban on the use of bottom trawlers in the "Darwin Mounds" zone off Scotland, a site that is unique in the world for cold water coral reefs (see EUROPE of 21 August 2003 on the proposal of the European Commission).
In the explanatory statement of the report on this issue, Elspeth Attwooll (ELDR) is highly critical of the British...