PRESTIGE INQUIRY

BY KEITH NUTHALLA EUROPEAN coastguard service should be established to tighten protection of European Union (EU) shores, the European Parliament's temporary committee on improving safety at sea has recommended following its Prestige disaster inquiry. The organisation would have the authority to assign emergency moorings and ports in the even t of a maritime accident, strictly monitor the following of ships to correct routes and prosecute the illegal entry of vessels. In proposing this to the full parliament, the committee again attacked the Spanish government's ...


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