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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9243

1 August 2006
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/lebanon/civil protection
EU responds to request for assistance from Lebanese authorities to help with oil spill following bombings

Brussels, 31/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission's Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC), the civil protection mechanism, is about to help Lebanon with an oil spill caused by the war.

Responding to the request for assistance made on 27 July by Lebanese minister for the environment, the MIC is currently drawing up a list of resources from countries that are part of this Community civil protection mechanism (thirty in all) in accordance with needs identified in the country....

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