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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9843
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/transport

Transport committee says yes to dissuasive penal sanctions for serious and repeated cases of maritime pollution by ships

Brussels, 18/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - To fight effectively against sea polluters, the European Parliament's Transport Committee aid that it supported member states being able to impose effective and dissuasive penal sanctions on ships guilty of illegal discharges of contaminant and dangerous substances and on the people who profit from these infringements of Community law: cargo owners and classification societies.

On Tuesday 17 February in Brussels, the parliamentary committee spoke out...

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