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EU crack down on ship pollution

February 25, 2005

Strasbourg, Belgium - The European Parliament has backed new laws to crack down on illegal ship source pollution, plans designed to stamp out environmental disasters like the Prestige oil spill.

MEPs in Strasbourg voted in favour of the tough new rules which for the first time provide criminal sanctions for deliberately polluting EU waters.

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