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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9638

9 April 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport council
Member states do not want Community maritime safety system

Brussels, 08/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - During heated public debate on Monday 7 April, member states marked their disapproval of the last two proposals (directive on flag state obligations and directive on the civil liability of shipowners) of the third maritime package. They prefer to act in an international rather than a Community framework. Highly politicised, the debate will continue above all to find a compromise with the parliament that adopted the whole of the spring 2007 package (see...

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