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EU Launches Maritime Safety Agency

Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.

December 4, 2002

The European Union has launched a Maritime Safety Agency in an effort to boost safety regulations following the Prestige outcome. It is reported EU governments decided to create the EMSA after the Erika incident in 1999, but the agency is now being implemented following the effects on the Spanish coast.
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