Subscribe to RSS feedBrussels shipbreaking policy looks washed up
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Justin Stares, Brussels
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May 17, 2010 10:20 AM
WHAT happened to European Union shipbreaking policy? Those with long memories will recall Stavros Dimas, the then Brussels environment commissioner, threatening industry with regional legislation back in 2006.
“Now is the time for action,” the commissioner said.
The EU would not “close its eyes” to the side-effects of the accelerated phase-out of single-hull tankers, he told a Brussels seminar.
The commission was lining up “mandatory means to solve...
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