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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9214

20 June 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 34 / 45
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/environment
Parliament favours coordinated management of flood risk in EU leaving sufficient margin of manoeuvre for Member States

Strasbourg, 19/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - Following its rapporteur, Richard Seeber (EPP-ED, Austria), the European Parliament has given its support for the Commission's proposal to establish a framework for managing flood risk at EU level. MEPs consider the proposal is an appropriate one to succeed where Member State individual action has not proved sufficiently effective, but they stress the need to comply with subsidiarity in order to prevent efforts being over-centralised (EUROPE 9176)....

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