ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEPS BACK REVISED EU SHIP RECYCLING LAW TEXT
July 1st, 2013
The European Parliament’s environment committee has backed the new law provisionally agreed between European Parliament negotiators and European Union (EU) member states on improving the environmental and working standards for scrapping EU-owned ships. Under a planned EU regulation, such ships would have to be dismantled in ship recycling facilities listed by the EU as meeting specific requirements, and are certified and regularly inspected.This vote (held late Wednesday July 10) was important because a European Parliament plenary session in April had rejected ...
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