HEALTH AND SAFETY REPORT
March 1st, 2001
KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union health and safety laws should be extended by a new EU directive to cover the 90 per cent of fishing boats that are currently exempt from them, a report from Spanish socialist MEP Miguélez Ramos has claimed.His views have now been adopted by the parliament's fisheries committee, which has supported a range of proposals suggested by the report. It highlighted that there were 1,347 accidents involving EU fishing vessels in 1997, an increase of 3.7 per cent over 1996, with the commonest type of accident being breakdowns of machinery, ...
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