EU – IMO CODE
March 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has written the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) shipping and port security code into EU law, approving a final draft of legislation agreed by the European Parliament. The agreement of the implementation legislation comes three months ahead of the July 1 deadline for putting the code into affect. By accepting parliamentary amendments, ministers avoided a time-consuming second reading of the legislation probably seeing it approved after this date. A council statement said the EU regulation ...
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