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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8931

20 April 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment
Reducing ship pollution

Strasbourg, 19/04/2005 (Agence Europe) - Following its rapporteur, Satu Hassi's line (Finnish Green) on the draft directive on sulphur content in ship engines, the European Parliament last Saturday called for a drastic reduction in ship induced air pollution throughout the EU. The resolution was adopted in second reading (35 votes for, 17 against and 3 abstentions) and is much more far-reaching that the Council's common position, given that the Parliament dug in its heels on its demands in...

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