Call for EU marine strategy to be accelerated

2031, 03/02/06

Sweden's environmental protection agency has called for the EU to accelerate plans to safeguard the marine environment.  Responding to a major strategy released by the European commission last October, the EPA stressed that Sweden could not meet national marine environmental goals without binding international rules. 

The commission's timetable therefore needs to be "brought forward substantially so that the North and the Baltic Sea don't have to wait until 2018 before joint measures are implemented," it said. 

See press release

http://www.internat.naturvardsverket.se/documents/press/2006/p060203.htm.

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